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Meaning of goby | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈɡəʊbi

Definitions

  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, a fish of the subfamily Gobioninae, such as Gobio gobio.

Equivalents

Deutsch Grundel
Ελληνικά Γωβιός κωβιός
Suomi tokko
Français gobie
Galego lorcha
Italiano ghiozzo
日本語 はせ 沙魚
한국어 망둑
Kurdî biya
Polski babka
Português góbio
Română guvid
Русский бычок
Tagalog biya
Türkçe sümüklü
Tiếng Việt cá bống

Examples

““It’s estimated that 10,000 yellowfin gobies died … as well as hundreds of striped bass and hundreds of sturgeon,” and the bloom probably is impacting all aquatic species in the area “to some degree,” Traverso said.”
“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[…]”
“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[…]”
“[...] 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).”

CEFR level

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