gobius

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noun A Linnean genus of fishes, typical or representative, in its modern acceptation, of the Gobiidœ or Gobioidea. G. soporator is found from tropical seas to North Carolina.

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Divers (as the old Romans) began with a few crops of rue, as the Venetians did with the fish called gobius; the Belgres with butter, or (as we do yet also) with butter and eggs upon fish days.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
Divers (as the old Romans) began with a few crops of rue, as the Venetians did with the fish called gobius; the Belgaes with butter, or (as we do yet also) with butter and eggs upon fish days.

Of the Food and Diet of the English. Chapter VI. [1577, Book III., Chapter 1; 1587, Book II., Chapter 6 1909
Our streams, which are small, and rise only at the end of the village, yield nothing but the bull's head or miller's thumb (_gobius fluviatilis capitatus_), the trout (_trutta fluviatilis_), the eel (_anguilla_), the lampern (_lampoetra parva et fluviatilis_), and the stickleback

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756