Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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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Examples
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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
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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 Belgaes with butter, or (as we do yet also) with butter and eggs upon fish days.
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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
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