Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various small marine fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, having a large sucking disk under the front part of the body by which they fasten themselves to rocks and seaweed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any species of fish belonging to the suborder Xenopterygii, small fishes living chiefly in shallow pools among the rocks, and having a ventral sucking-disk with which they are enabled to cling to any object.
Wiktionary
- n. A small marine fish of the family Gobiesocidae which has a sucking disc on its underside that it uses to cling to rocks and seaweed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
Examples
“(Tilesius, 1812); 00: 21 Grunt sculpin - Rhamphocottus richardsoni Günther, 1874; 00: 25 Salt and pepper nudibranch - Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905; 00: 30 Northern clingfish”
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“00: 30 Northern clingfish Gobiesox maeandricus (Girard, 1858); 00: 34 Delicate six-armed sea star - Leptasterias aequalis (Stimpson, 1862); 00: 39 Smooth scaled-chiton - Lepidozona interstinctus (Gould, 1846); 00: 43 Baetic olive - Olivella baetica Carpenter, 1864; 00: 48”
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“Aegires albopunctatus MacFarland, 1905; 00: 30 Northern clingfish Gobiesox maeandricus (Girard,”
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Lists
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
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fish
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Insulting animals
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
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