Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Langya \Lan"gya\, n. (Zo["o]l.) [Native name Anglicized.]
   One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water
   fishes of the genus {Ophiocephalus}, remarkable for their
   power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life;
   -- called also {walking fishes}.