Definitions for Anabas

Anabas an·a·bas

Spelling: [an-uh-bas]
IPA: /ˈæn əˌbæs/

Anabas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in Anabas (aaabns).

Definitions for Anabas

noun

  1. any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.

Origin of Anabas

1835-45; New Latin Greek, aorist participle of anabaínein to go up. See anabaena

Examples for Anabas

The most celebrated example of this faculty, however, is the climbing perch (anabas scandens) of India.

A related species is the equally famous tree-climber of India (anabas scandens).

In 1797 Lieutenant Daldorf describes his capture of an anabas, five feet above the water, on the bark of a palm-tree.

The fish which the moodliar sent to me proved to be an anabas, and closely resembles the Perca scandens of Daldorf.

These labyrinthal water-chambers are particularly numerous and complicated in the anabas just mentioned.

Like anabas, the climbing perch, it possesses a suprabranchial accessory respiratory organ.

The most interesting member of this family is anabas scandens, the climbing perch.

Word Value for Anabas
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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