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Stickleback

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Noun

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stick=le=back

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Stickleback has 1 sense

stickleback(n = noun.animal) prickleback - small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research; Array

is a member of family gasterosteidae, gasterosteidae

has particulars: gasterosteus aculeatus, three-spined stickleback, gasterosteus pungitius, ten-spined stickleback

is a kind of acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Stickleback, n. [OE. & Prov E. stickle a prickle, spine, sting (AS. sticel) + back. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Banstickle.].

Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Stickleback, n. any small fish of the family Gasterosteidae, esp. Gasterosteus aculeatus, with sharp spines along the back.

Etymology

ME f. OE sticel thorn, sting + b{aelig}c BACK

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