/goo rah"mee/ , n. , pl. ( esp. collectively ) gourami , ( esp. referring to two or more kinds or species ) gouramis .
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.
[ 1875-80; gurami graméh ]