Goby

//ˈɡəʊbi// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.

    "“It’s estimated that 10,000 yellowfin gobies died … as well as hundreds of striped bass and hundreds of sturgeon,” and the bloom probably is impacting all aquatic species in the area “to some degree,” Traverso said."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    A gudgeon, a fish of the subfamily Gobioninae, such as Gobio gobio.

    "For acclimatization in the Barents Sea he recommends using the fish fauna of East Kamchatka and the Bering Sea, especially the Atka mackerel, the Goby Gobio gobio lepidolaemus (half scaled goby) and a species of flatfish, in the[…]"

Etymology

From Latin gobius (“gudgeon”), from Ancient Greek κωβιός (kōbiós), a type of small fish, of unknown ultimate origin. See also gudgeon.

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