stickleback (redirected from three-spined sticklebacks)

stick·le·back  (stkl-bk)

n.

Any of various small freshwater and marine fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, having erectile spines along the back.

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[Middle English stikelbak : Old English sticel, prick; see steig- in Indo-European roots + Middle English bak, back; see back¹.]

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stickleback

Noun

a small fish with sharp spines along its back [Old English sticel prick, sting + back]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

stickleback - 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