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Etymology

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From goby +‎ -like.

Adjective

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gobylike (comparative more gobylike, superlative most gobylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a goby (fish).
    • 1997, Jack Stein Grove, Robert J. Lavenberg, The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands, page 548:
      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; []