frillgoby

English

Noun

frillgoby (plural frillgobies)

  1. Any of the tropical fish of the genus Bathygobius.
    • 1998 [1871], Jules Verne, translated by William Butcher, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, revised, illustrated edition:
      Amongst the fish that the Nautilus frightened as it passed, I will cite the metre-long cyclopteroid with a black back and orange stomach, providing an example of conjugal fidelity rarely followed by its congeners, a huge Forsskal's stingray, a sort of emerald moray eel which has a excellent taste, big-eyed carracks whose heads resemble dogs', blennies viviparous like snakes, 20-centimetre frillgobies or black gudgeons, and Macrura with long tails and shining with a silvery glitter: quick fish that had ventured far from hyperborean seas.

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