white cloud

noun

1. a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.

Word History and Origins

Origin of white cloud¹

By ellipsis from White Cloud Mountain fish, after a hill of the same name ( Chinese Bǎiyún shān ), NE of Canton, China, where the fish was discovered in 1932

Example Sentences

The only light was the flickering rays of our own lamps, in which steam from our hard-driven horses rose in a white cloud.

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There seemed to be no wind, but the great country of white cloud up aloft had advanced, and a soft gloom filled the Glyn.

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I made a devilish good thing of it, that way, in the old White Cloud two years ago.

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Mew-hew-she-kaw, the White Cloud; first Chief of the nation.

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A black-tailed buck, the gift of White Cloud, spent its last years in the park of his home at Rochester.

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