GOBY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goby mean? 

• GOBY (noun)
  The noun GOBY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: GOBY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOBY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

goby; gudgeon

Hypernyms ("goby" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "goby"):

mudskipper; mudspringer (found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins)

Holonyms ("goby" is a member of...):

family Gobiidae; Gobiidae (gobies)