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Prickleback

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n. Any of the fish in the Stichaeidae family.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The stickleback.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The stickleback. Also prickle-fish and pricklyback.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

n. small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines

Word Usage

"Octopus, capable of squeezing itself through extremely narrow cracks and openings, and the monkeyface prickleback, another eel-like fish that can survive out of water for longer than a day."

Equivalent

pricklefish