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white cloud

noun

  1. a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of white cloud1

By ellipsis from White Cloud Mountain fish, after a hill of the same name ( Chinese Bǎiyún shān ), NE of Canton, China, where the fish was discovered in 1932

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Example Sentences

The only light was the flickering rays of our own lamps, in which steam from our hard-driven horses rose in a white cloud.

There seemed to be no wind, but the great country of white cloud up aloft had advanced, and a soft gloom filled the Glyn.

I made a devilish good thing of it, that way, in the old White Cloud two years ago.

Mew-hew-she-kaw, the White Cloud; first Chief of the nation.

A black-tailed buck, the gift of White Cloud, spent its last years in the park of his home at Rochester.

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