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

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.

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.