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单词 barramundi
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barramundi

[ bar-uh-muhn-dee ]
/ ˌbær əˈmʌn di /

noun, plural bar·ra·mun·dis, bar·ra·mun·dies, (especially collectively) bar·ra·mun·di.

a lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, of the rivers of Australia.
Sometimes bar·ra·mun·da [bar-uh-muhn-duh] /ˌbær əˈmʌn də/ .

Origin of barramundi

First recorded in 1870–75; from an Aboriginal language of Queensland

Words nearby barramundi

Barra de São Francisco, barrage, barrage balloon, Barra Mansa, barramunda, barramundi, barranca, Barrancabermeja, Barranquilla, Barraquer's disease, Barras
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Example sentences from the Web for barramundi

  • The barramundi does not leave the water, nor can it live long in the air.

    Zoology: The Science of Animal Life|Ernest Ingersoll
  • In a mangrove creek a shoal of barramundi had been bombed with dynamite.

    Tropic Days|E. J. Banfield

British Dictionary definitions for barramundi

barramundi
/ (ˌbærəˈmʌndɪ) /

noun plural -dis, -dies or -di

any of several large edible Australian fishes esp the percoid species Lates calcarifer (family Centropomidae) of NE coastal waters or the freshwater species Scleropages leichardti (family Osteoglossidae) of Queensland
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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