ˈanəbəs, -ˌbas noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, aorist participle of anabainein
: a genus (the type of a family Anabantidae) comprising small perchlike freshwater spiny-finned fishes of southeastern Asia and Africa and often being placed with a few related fishes in a separate suborder of the Percomorphi — see climbing perch