Crossword clues for goby
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
kind of fish, 1769, from Latin gobius, from Greek gobios, name of a type of small fish, of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. 2 A gudgeon, such as ''Gobio gobio''.
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]
Wikipedia
Gobies are fishes of the family Gobiidae, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most of them are relatively small, typically less than in length. Gobies include some of the smallest vertebrates in the world, such as Trimmatom nanus and Pandaka pygmaea, which are under long when fully grown. Some large gobies, such as some species of the genera Gobioides or Periophthalmodon, can reach over in length, but that is exceptional. Generally, they are benthic, or bottom-dwellers. Although few are important as food for humans, they are of great significance as prey species for commercially important fish such as cod, haddock, sea bass, and flatfish. Several gobies are also of interest as aquarium fish, such as the bumblebee gobies of the genus Brachygobius. Phylogenetic relationships of gobies have been studied using molecular data.
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 (1852–1926), German violinist
- W. J. Gobrecht (born 1931), American football player and coach
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.