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goby
[goh-bee]
noun
plural
goby ,plural
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
Word History and Origins
Origin of goby1
Word History and Origins
Origin of goby1
Example Sentences
Another endangered fish, northern tidewater gobies, were rescued from the same watershed shortly before the steelhead were liberated.
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.
Tidewater gobies are a hardy fish fallen on hard luck.
On their honeymoon, they went to a southern point in San Diego to collect goby fish specimens.
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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