Stickleback

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various small freshwater and marine fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, having erectile spines along the back.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any fish of the family Gasterosteidæ: so called from the sharp spines of the back.
    • 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
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    acanthopterygian    spiny-finned fish   
    Variant
    sticklebag    sharpling    prickleback   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sharpling    sticklebag   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sea anemone    minnow    verlek    anough    birchwood   
     
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