Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Cuvierian genus of cyprinoid fishes, of the family Cyprinidœ; the gudgeons proper, related to the carp, bream, bleak, roach, tench, etc., but not to the gobies (Gobiidœ). The common European gudgeon is Gobio fluviatilis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A genus of fish comprising the true gudgeons.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun true gudgeons
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Gudgeon _Gobio fluviatilis_, i 371 or _Cyprinus gobio_
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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