climbing fish

British  

noun

1. an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins

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Example Sentences

The economic improvements resulting from climbing fish prices     in 1990 and a noninflationary labor agreement probably will be reversed by     tighter fish quotas and a delay in the construction of an aluminum smelting     plant.

From The 1992 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

After a while, Luke said he thought it must be one of the climbing fish described by Agassiz, and that it had gone up a tree.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated by Various

Had they known of it I feel certain that the climbing fish, which is one of the curiosities of these waters, would have flopped on to my pillow.

From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)

Daldorf's account of climbing fish, 350. his story doubted, 350.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir