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# goby

«goby» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small fish that lives near the sea floor, in rock pools…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a goby, gobies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A goby is a small fish that lives near the sea floor, in rock pools or on coral reefs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goby/#m1)

2) Some gobies live together with shrimps and share a burrow with them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goby/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, gobies are an example of partnership in nature: a blind shrimp digs the burrow and the goby keeps watch for danger. Children find gobies in rock pools at the seaside in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

### examples

- We found a little goby hiding in the rock pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goby/#x1)
- The goby darted under a stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goby/#x2)
- Some gobies are smaller than your fingernail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goby/#x3)
- A goby and a shrimp share a burrow on the reef. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goby/#x4)
- The aquarium had bright yellow gobies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goby/#x5)
- Gobies stick to rocks with fins on their bellies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goby/#x6)

### note

Plural: gobies (y to ies). Pronounced «GOH-bee». Not to be confused with «gobi», as in the Gobi Desert, or «go by».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «goby» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goby/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.