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medaka

(mĭ-däˈkə)

noun

A small Japanese fish (Oryzias latipes) commonly found in rice fields and often used in biological research or in stocking aquariums.

Origin:

Origin: Japanese, killifish

Origin: : me, eye

Origin: + daka, high

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