English noun: stickleback | |||
1. | stickleback (animal) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | ||
Synonyms | prickleback | ||
Broader (hypernym) | acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Gasterosteus aculeatus, Gasterosteus pungitius, ten-spined stickleback, three-spined stickleback | ||
Member meronym | family Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteidae | ||