Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small marine fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, having a large sucking disk under the front part of the body by which they fasten themselves to rocks and seaweed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any species of fish belonging to the suborder Xenopterygii, small fishes living chiefly in shallow pools among the rocks, and having a ventral sucking-disk with which they are enabled to cling to any object.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small marine
fish of the family Gobiesocidae which has a sucking disc on its underside that it uses tocling to rocks and seaweed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
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Examples
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(Tilesius, 1812); 00: 21 Grunt sculpin - Rhamphocottus richardsoni Günther, 1874; 00: 25 Salt and pepper nudibranch - Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905; 00: 30 Northern clingfish
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00: 30 Northern clingfish Gobiesox maeandricus (Girard, 1858); 00: 34 Delicate six-armed sea star - Leptasterias aequalis (Stimpson, 1862); 00: 39 Smooth scaled-chiton - Lepidozona interstinctus (Gould, 1846); 00: 43 Baetic olive - Olivella baetica Carpenter, 1864; 00: 48
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Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905; 00: 30 Northern clingfish Gobiesox maeandricus (Girard,
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