Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

anabas

anabas (an"ȧ*bas) , noun

[Greek 'anaba`s, past participle of bai`nein to advance.]

(Zoology) A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.