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stickleback

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stick·le·back  (stkl-bk)
n.
Any of various small freshwater and marine fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, having erectile spines along the back.
[Middle English stikelbak : Old English sticel, prick; see steig- in Indo-European roots + Middle English bak, back; see back1.]
stickleback
Noun
a small fish with sharp spines along its back [Old English sticel prick, sting + back]
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Noun1.sticklebackstickleback - small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
prickleback
family Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteidae - sticklebacks
Gasterosteus aculeatus, three-spined stickleback - of rivers and coastal regions
Gasterosteus pungitius, ten-spined stickleback - confined to rivers
acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
Translations
stickleback [ˈstɪklbæk] n → épinoche f
stickleback [ˈstɪklbæk] n → Stichling m
stickleback [ˈstɪklbæk] n → spinarello


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THE stickleback floundered about the boat, pricking and snapping until he was quite out of breath.
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It was he who bent the first pin with which Tom extracted his first stickleback out of "Pebbly Brook," the little stream which ran through the village.
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