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goby in American English
any of a family (Gobiidae) of small, predatory, spiny-finned percoid fishes of tropical and subtropical seas: the pelvic fins are united as a suction disk that clings to rocky surfaces
noun: any small marine or freshwater fish of the family Gobiidae, often having the pelvic fins united to form a suctorial disk

goby in British English
noun: any small spiny-finned fish of the family Gobiidae, of coastal or brackish waters, having a large head, an elongated tapering body, and the ventral fins modified as a sucker

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