medaka

[ mi-dak-uh ]

noun
  1. a small Japanese fish, Oryzias latipes, common in rice fields, often kept in aquariums.

Origin of medaka

1
1930–35; <Japanese, equivalent to me(y) (earlier *mai) eye + -daka, combining form of taka high

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