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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


Synonymsprickleback


Broader (hypernym)acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish


Narrower (hyponym)Gasterosteus aculeatus, Gasterosteus pungitius, ten-spined stickleback, three-spined stickleback


Member meronymfamily Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteidae









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