gourami

American  

[goo-rah-mee] / gʊˈrɑ mi /

noun

plural

gourami,

plural

gouramis

1. a large, air-breathing, nest-building, freshwater Asiatic fish, Osphronemus goramy, used for food.

2. any of several small, air-breathing, nest-building Asiatic fishes of the genera Trichogaster, Colisa, and Trichopsis, often kept in aquariums.

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gourami British  

/ ˈɡʊərəmɪ /

noun

1. a large SE Asian labyrinth fish, Osphronemus goramy, used for food and (when young) as an aquarium fish

2. any of various other labyrinth fishes, such as Helostoma temmincki ( kissing gourami ), many of which are brightly coloured and popular aquarium fishes

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Etymology

Origin of gourami

1875–80; < Malay ( Java dial.) gurami < Javanese graméh

Example Sentences

At first she kept every angelfish, betta and gourami.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023

The next day he wrote back, I would be an opaline gourami.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2017

Waltham said the climbing perch was just one of several invasive wetland-dwelling species in PNG – including walking catfish, snakehead, pacu, tilapia and gourami – that posed a possible threat to Australian habitats.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2015

Achang called the fish the gourami, or something like that; but beyond this nothing was known about him.

From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.

The surgeon called it the gourami, and said that some successful attempts had been made to introduce the fish in American waters.

From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.