Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kissing gourami

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English

Syllables: kiss-ing -goura-mi
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

kissing gouramis (plural) kissing gouramies (plural)

Synonyms

kisser

Questions

What does kissing gourami mean?: 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.

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