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Synonyms
1. stickleback
noun. small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research.
Synonyms
- spiny-finned fish
- three-spined stickleback
- ten-spined stickleback
- Gasterosteus pungitius
- Gasterosteus aculeatus
- Gasterosteidae
- acanthopterygian
- family Gasterosteidae