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goby
[ goh-bee ]
noun
plural (especially collectively) goby, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) gobies.
- any small marine or freshwater fish of the family Gobiidae, often having the pelvic fins united to form a suctorial disk.
- any fish of the closely related family Eleotridae, having the pelvic fins separate.
goby
/ ˈɡəʊɪ /
noun
- any small spiny-finned fish of the family Gobiidae, of coastal or brackish waters, having a large head, an elongated tapering body, and the ventral fins modified as a sucker
- any other gobioid fish
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Word History and Origins
Origin of goby1
1760–70; < Latin ōܲ gudgeon (spelling variant of ōō or ōܲ ) < Greek ōó
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Word History and Origins
Origin of goby1
C18: from Latin ōܲ gudgeon, fish of little value, from Greek ōDz
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Another endangered fish, northern tidewater gobies, were rescued from the same watershed shortly before the steelhead were liberated.
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Less than a week before the trout were evacuated, 760 northern tidewater gobies — tiny endangered fish — were scooped out of the same watershed and transported to aquariums.
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Tidewater gobies are a hardy fish fallen on hard luck.
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On their honeymoon, they went to a southern point in San Diego to collect goby fish specimens.
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Organizers of the triathlon did not receive confirmation of the tidewater goby’s presence in the Zuma Beach underpass until late August.
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