Definition of "goby"

goby

/ˈɡəʊbi/

noun
plural goby or gobies
1. Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.
2. A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio.
  Quotations
  For acclimatization in the Barents Sea he recommends using the fish fauna of East Kamchatka and the Bering Sea, especially the Atka mackerel, the Goby Gobio gobio lepidolaemus (half scaled goby) and a species of flatfish, in the […]
  1966, Oceanology, page 321
  Other fish species include Barbel Barbus barbus, Goby Gobio gobio, Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus, Dace Leuciscus leuciscus, Chub Leuciscus cephalus, Ide Leuciscus idus, Nase Chondrostona nasus, Burbot Lota lota, Pike Esox lucius […]
  1980, Erik Carp, Directory of Wetlands of International Importance in the Western Palearctic, IUCN, page 70
  [...] undermonth Chondrostoma nasus, bleak Alburnus alburnus, goby Gobio gobio, pine Esox lucius, perch Perca fluviatilis, ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus, spiny loach Cobitis taenia, stone loach Nemacheilus barbatulus, sculpin Cottus gobio, and burbot Lota lota (Pavlov et al., 1981).
  1997, Journal of Ichthyology, page 463