Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous usually small spiny-finned fishes of the family Gobiidae, having the pelvic fins united to form a suction disk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the genus Gobius or family Gobiidæ; a gobiid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the
pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker. - noun A
gudgeon , such asGobio gobio .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But after discussing the plan with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other agencies, he says, regulators abandoned it because the aerators could hurt an endangered fish, the tidewater goby.
Tiny Town Is Awash in Water Woes Justin Scheck 2012
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My favorite freshwater fish was sold to me as an “emerald goby”.
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Yes | No | Report from Ryan Dufner wrote 31 weeks 6 days ago try live goby if your fishing the great lakes it works better than anything else here
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Yes | No | Report from Ryan Dufner wrote 31 weeks 6 days ago try live goby if your fishing the great lakes it works better than anything else here
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Gobiodon okinawae, yellow clown goby, male, guarding its eggs in Caulastrea furcata, teal candy cane coral, by Kevin McCarthy — Neither of these specimens is rare or endangered, but they are both fascinating.
Photography contest: Finalists, General Category - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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A series of critters, including Zebra mussels and round goby, have spread to waterways across the country, causing billions of dollars in damage to local ecosystems.
Amid carp threat, a call to unhook Douglas Belkin 2010
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Also in the New York Times consider the shrimp goby and what people can learn from its mutual relationship with another species.
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Gobiodon okinawae, yellow clown goby, male, guarding its eggs in Caulastrea furcata, teal candy cane coral, by Kevin McCarthy — Neither of these specimens is rare or endangered, but they are both fascinating.
Photography contest: Finalists, General Category - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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But sometimes they seem to be the first people to forget that that fact; at least if their stuttering defences and denialsareanything to goby.
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But sometimes they seem to be the first people to forget that that fact; at least if their stuttering defences and denialsareanything to goby.
Politicians take note: expenses controversy makes you less popular 2009
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