The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fighting \Fight"ing\, a.
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Qualified for war; fit for battle.
An host of fighting men.
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Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.
--Pope.A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.]
Fighting crab (Zo["o]l.), the fiddler crab.
Fighting fish (Zo["o]l.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish ( Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.
Wiktionary
n. A small aggressive freshwater fish originating from Thailand, popular as aquarium fish, ''Betta splendens''.
Wikipedia
Fighting fish may refer to species of fish in Macropodusinae subfamily as:
- Wild species of Macropodus genus native to eastern Asia and fight together, such as: Paradise fish ( Macropodus opercularis), Black paradisefish ( Macropodus spechti), Red-backed paradise fish ( Macropodus erythropterus) and Round-tailed paradise fish ( Macropodus ocellatus)
- Wild species of Betta genus live in the Mekong Delta and fight together, such as: Siamese fish ( B. splendens, B. imbellis, B. mahachaiensis, B. smaragdina), B. taeniata, B. pugnax, B. sp. Bung Binh...
- Wild species of Trichopsis genus live in the Mekong Delta and fight together, such as: Sparkling gourami (Trichopsis pumila), Croaking gourami (Trichopsis vittata)
Usage examples of "fighting fish".
And Amy Carnath and her bettas, because she's the first CIT friend I ever had I worked that out with, and she breeds fighting fish.
What brought him on his annual pilgrimage to these waters was the thrill of the hissing reel and the running line, the tension of the bowed rod, and the sheer excitement of the contest between air-breathing man and monstrously strong fighting fish.
Also, the freshwater aquarium had been shattered, and the twin Siamese fighting fish had been killed.
Players swirled in shoals among the forest roots like half a hundred color-coded fighting fish.
It was still half full of rare Siamese Fighting Fish, and Bond was pleased with the expensive crash as the remains of the tank burst in fragments on the floor.
The two women had gotten along since, wary as fighting fish in a tank.