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Small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
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goby
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goby \Go"by\, n.; pl. Gobies . [F. gobie, L. gobius, gobio, Gr. ? Cf. Gudgeon .] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind of fish, 1769, from Latin gobius , from Greek gobios , name of a type of small fish, of unknown origin.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A goby is a small fish whose pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. Goby may also refer to: Goby (search engine) , a travel ticket search engine Goby, Virginia , an unincorporated area in the United States Goby Lake , in Palau Goby Eberhardt ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker [syn: gudgeon ]
Usage examples of goby.
Mr Goby had never been known to address the human being he was working for directly.
When he had finished with Mr Goby, Poirot rang up Scotland Yard where in due course he got through to a friend of his.
Mr Goby and the other is an old gentleman called Sir Roderick Horsefield.
Mr Goby had come out of the kitchen and was standing in the hall giving, it could be said, an excellent performance of a man who had come to see about the gas.
From the Tyras waters Maggot could hook just about any kind of fish I had ever heard of, and, even more easily, could scoop up with an improvised net whole batches of the little white lavarets or silver bleaks or the still smaller gobies, all of which made delicious eating.
Among the bony fish I noticed some gray gobies, peculiar to these waters.
With regard to fish, I observed especially specimens of the goby species, some two feet long, all over white and yellow spots.