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gobylike

gobylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a goby (fish).

Adjective

gobylike (comparative more gobylike, superlative most gobylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a goby (fish).
    • A large, scaleless gobylike fish with a big head and two well-separated dorsal fins, the first with six flexible spines and the second with 9–10 soft rays; […]1997, Jack Stein Grove, Robert J. Lavenberg, The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands, page 548

Forms of gobylike

comparativemore gobylike
superlativemost gobylike

Origin of gobylike

From goby + -like.

Questions about gobylike

What does gobylike mean?
Gobylike means resembling or characteristic of a goby (fish).
What part of speech is gobylike?
Gobylike is an adjective.

Words near gobylike in the dictionary

  1. Gobur
  2. goburra
  3. goburras
  4. goby
  5. Goby Lake
  6. gobylike
  7. GOC
  8. Goca
  9. gocart
  10. gocarts
  11. GOCC

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