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GUDGEON

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers

Synonyms:

Gobio gobio; gudgeon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gudgeon" is a kind of...):

cyprinid; cyprinid fish (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)

Holonyms ("gudgeon" is a member of...):

genus Gobio; Gobio (true gudgeons)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker

Synonyms:

goby; gudgeon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gudgeon" is a kind of...):

percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gudgeon"):

mudskipper; mudspringer (found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins)

Holonyms ("gudgeon" is a member of...):

family Gobiidae; Gobiidae (gobies)

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