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

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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As a result of climbing fish prices in 1990 and a noninflationary labor agreement, Iceland is pulling out of a recession, which began in mid-1988 with a sharp decline in fish prices and an imposition of quotas on fish catches to conserve stocks.

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