Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gudgeon
2 senses of gudgeon
Sense 1
goby, gudgeon -- (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)
=> percoid fish, percoid, percoidean -- (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Sense 2
gudgeon, Gobio gobio -- (small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers)
=> cyprinid, cyprinid fish -- (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)