[goo-rah-mee] 
) -mi, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -mis. | 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. |
| gou·ra·mi (gŏŏ-rä'mē, gŏŏr'ə-) n. pl. gou·ra·mis Any of various freshwater fishes of the family Anabantidae of southeast Asia, capable of breathing air and popular in home aquariums. [Malay gurami, carp, of Javanese origin.] |