stickleback

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noun

small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship;
subjects of much research
• Syn:
prickleback
• Hypernyms:
spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
• Hyponyms:
three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, ten-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus pungitius
• Member Holonyms:
Gasterosteidae, family Gasterosteidae