胖婴鱼

胖嬰魚
pàngyīngyú
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 stout infantfish (Schindleria brevipinguis)
  2. 2 one of the world's smallest vertebrates

Examples

Pàngyīngyú zhǐ yǒu qī háomǐ cháng.
The stout infantfish is only seven millimeters long.
Pàngyīngyú shì shìjiè shàng zuì xiǎo de jǐzhuī dòngwù zhī yī.
The stout infantfish is one of the smallest vertebrates in the world.

Tips

memory
Parse as "chubby infant fish" — brevipinguis means "short and fat" in Latin, and the fish retains a larva-like neotenic body as an adult. Lives only on the Great Barrier Reef.

Stroke Order

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