Definitions for gourami

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gourami gou·ra·mi

Spelling: [goo-rah-mee]

IPA: /gʊˈrɑ mi/

Gourami is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in gourami (agimoru).

Definitions for gourami

noun

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.

Origin of gourami

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

Examples for gourami

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

A fish of Java, the gourami (Osphronemus olfax), establishes an ovoid nest with the leaves of aquatic plants woven together.

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