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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
Narrower terms: skillet fish, skilletfish, Gobiesox strumosus
History
From cling + fish.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
