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goby
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun goby has 1 sense
- goby(n = noun.animal) gudgeon - 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; Array is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
is a member of family gobiidae, gobiidae
has particulars: mudskipper, mudspringer
CIDE DICTIONARY
goby, n. [F. gobie, L. gobius, gobio, Gr. Cf. Gudgeon.].
One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
goby, n. (pl. -ies) any small marine fish of the family Gabiidae, having ventral fins joined to form a sucker or disc.
Etymology
L gobius, cobius f. Gk kobios GUDGEON(1)
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