kissing gourami

English

a kissing gourami kissing

Noun

kissing gourami (plural kissing gouramis or kissing gouramies)

1. A large tropical freshwater fish (Helostoma temminckii), commercial food fish which are farmed in their native Southeast Asia and are also popular with aquarists for the fish's peculiar "kissing" behaviour.

Synonyms

• kisser

Translations

fish

• Finnish: pusukala (fi)
• German: Küssender Gurami
• Hungarian: csókos gurámi
• Korean: 키싱 구라미 (kising gurami)
• Russian: целу́ющийся гура́ми m (celújuščijsja gurámi), хелосто́ма f (xelostóma)

Further reading

• kissing gourami on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Helostoma temminckii on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Helostoma temminckii on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia