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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubfamily Gobioninae — thegudgeons .
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Examples
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The _Nepura_ of the natives, Gobio malacostoma, or Rock Carp of Gray,
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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-- Gobio occurs in shoals -- either occupied in busily turning up its silvery sides against the bottom, or at the surface, above which it may be seen protruding its head.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The _Bangun_, Roh, (Gobio) is a splendid fish, base and edges of the scales dusky brown, otherwise refulgent gilded, belly white, fins dusky, head greenish-brown, less gilding about the dorsal scales.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Gudgeon _Gobio fluviatilis_, i 371 or _Cyprinus gobio_
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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_] ++Gobio is a smale longe fissh with a rou {n} de body/full of scales and litell blacke spottys/and some saye they leue of drou {n} de caryo {n}/
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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