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 [syn: goby, gudgeon]
Goby \Go"by\, n.; pl. Gobies. [F. gobie, L. gobius, gobio, Gr.
? Cf. Gudgeon.] (Zool.)
One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus
Gobius and allied genera.
[1913 Webster]