Definition of Gobio

1. Noun. True gudgeons.

Exact synonyms: Genus Gobio
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Cyprinidae, Family Cyprinidae
Member holonyms: Gobio Gobio, Gudgeon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gobio

Go Fish
Goa
Goa powder
Goa powders
Goan
Goans
Gobannian
Gobelin
Gobelins
Gobi
Gobi Desert
Gobiesocidae
Gobiesox
Gobiesox strumosus
Gobiidae
Gobio (current term)
Gobio gobio
God
God's Will
God's Wisdom
God's acre
God's algorithm
God's gift to man
God's gift to women
God's green earth
God's honest truth
God's number
God-fearing
God-given
God-speed

Literary usage of Gobio

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1868)
"Gobio. Scales of moderate size; lateral line present. Dorsal fin short, without spine, ... 5, and Cyprinus gobio, L. Syst. Nat. ip 520; Block, ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"Cottus gobio, Lin., Bl. 39. i. 2. A small flsh, four or five inches long, blackish. The salt water species are more spiny: when irritated they swell out the ..."

3. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1869)
"PARENTAL ATTACHMENT OF THE MILLER'S THUMB (COTTUS Gobio). ... The (Coitus gobio) miller's thumb, or river bullhead, is an inhabitant of most of our rivers ..."

4. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1829)
"... in the Mulus gobio ; and Notice on the Circulation of the Foetus in Ruminating Animals. By M. PREVOST of Geneva. * M. PREVOST, along with M. Dumas, ..."

5. The Entertaining Naturalist: Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and by Loudon (Jane) (1850)
"THE BULL-HEAD, OR MILLER'S THUMB, (Coitus gobio,) Is found in clear brooks and rivers in most parts of Europe, always at or near to spring-heads. ..."

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