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 →

2) Some gobies live together with shrimps and share a burrow with them. tree →

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 →
• The goby darted under a stone. tree →
• Some gobies are smaller than your fingernail. tree →
• A goby and a shrimp share a burrow on the reef. tree →
• The aquarium had bright yellow gobies. tree →
• Gobies stick to rocks with fins on their bellies. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.