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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.

gòbit
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Examples for "gudgeon"
Examples for "gudgeon"
1
Gradually the whale became a porpoise, and the porpoise became a gudgeon.
Robur the Conqueror
2
The fish commonly caught are mullet, perch, barbel, gudgeon, bream, and chub.
Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
3
Not enough, sir, to catch the merest fresh-water gudgeon that swims.
Home as Found / Sequel to "Homeward Bound"
4
The kinds most common are barbel, carp, dace, bleak, and gudgeon.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3: ...
5
She had caught him like a fisherman hooks a gudgeon.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 / Boule de Suif and Other...
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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Catalan
gòbit
Goby through the time