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Definition of Medaka
1. a Japanese fish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medaka
Literary usage of Medaka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Review of the EPA Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan by National Research Council (U.S.), Panel on Water System Security Research (2004)
"Other monitoring systems could also be considered, such as a flow-through
biomonitoring system using selected fish species (eg, medaka, flat head minnows, ..."
2. A Manual of Budhism, in Its Modern Development by Robert Spence Hardy (1880)
"When the noble medaka had bathed, he looked towards the sky, and there came down
a fine kind of rice, which filled 12500 large granaries. ..."
3. Assessing the Human Health Risks of Trichloroethylene: Key Scientific Issues by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"For example, in a 6-month carcinogenicity assay, trichloroethylene-contaminated
groundwa- ter was found to be carcinogenic in Japanese medaka fish, ..."
4. Catalogue of Specimens of Japanese Lacquer and Metal Work Exhibited in 1894 by Burlington Fine Arts Club, William Anderson, Arthur Herbert Church, Edward Gilbertson, Edward Dillon (1894)
"Decoration of carp, in high relief, darting through the water, with other small
fish (medaka), and water weeds. The legs to represent decayed sticks of wood ..."
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