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Meanings of goby in English

Catalan
gòbit

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.

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        Usage of goby in English
        1
        A beadlet anemone devouring a young goby with an implosive burst.
        The Scar
        2
        Nature seems to have made the goby in one of her most freakish moods.
        The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1: ...
        3
        Small curly children were standing in rock pools looking entirely staggered by the darting goby fish.
        The Irish Times
        4
        This is the 'spotted goby' or 'pole-wing.'
        Chatterbox, 1906
        5
        They used radar to track the movements of goby populations, and conducted a series of aquarium experiments on individual fishes.
        Wired
        6
        In the Shat-el-Arab, which is wholly within the influence of the tides, there is a species of goby, which is amphibious.
        The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1: ...
        7
        In recent years, fishermen and researchers noticed more bearded gobies than before.
        Wired
        8
        The Goby's next task is to make a hole beneath the shell.
        Within the Deep / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII...
        9
        The most frustrating thing about Goby is that it lacks RSS feeds.
        Wired
        10
        Where would you find the Sand Goby, the Pipe-fish, and the Sea-stickleback?
        Within the Deep / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII...
        11
        Goby is new search engine designed to help you find something to do.
        Wired
        12
        She used crack gloves, which reduced gobies but could not stave off bruising.
        Rock and Ice Magazine
        13
        You know how angry you told me the people were about Mrs. Goby.
        Middlemarch
        14
        This is how a traveller describes one of these foreign Gobies:-
        Within the Deep / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII...
        15
        In Goby's train was his fervent admirer and inseparable young friend, Clarence Hoby.
        The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
        16
        Who is Mrs Goby?' exclaimed the man of letters, irate at the disturbance.
        New Grub Street
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        Goby through the time