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Definition of Stickleback
1. Noun. Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research.
Group relationships: Family Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteidae
Specialized synonyms: Gasterosteus Aculeatus, Three-spined Stickleback, Gasterosteus Pungitius, Ten-spined Stickleback
Generic synonyms: Acanthopterygian, Spiny-finned Fish
Definition of Stickleback
1. n. Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.
Definition of Stickleback
1. Noun. Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stickleback
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stickleback
Literary usage of Stickleback
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"When the stickleback is not resting he is always going somewhere and he knows
just where he is going and what he is going to do, and earthquakes shall not ..."
2. In the Child's World: Morning Talks and Stories for Kindergartens, Primary by Emilie Poulsson (1893)
"They soon swam back to the group of plants, for Purple stickleback would not go
far from his nest; and Mr. stickleback said: " Now I know what to do. ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"stickleback, the popular name of the acan- ... The best known of the many species
in the United States are the two-spined stickleback (0. ..."
4. Mechanics Magazine (1826)
"FEATS OF THE stickleback. In vol. in. of the Edinburgh Journal of Science, p.
74, Mr. Ramage, of Aberdeen, has given an account of a stickleback, ..."
5. The Intellectual Observer (1864)
"I am induced to make theso remarks from, having, on the 3rd of June last, found
several nests of the three-spined stickleback in a small brook near Leeds, ..."
6. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1825)
"Account of a stickleback that was found with a Leech alive in its ... One of the
children, to whom I had given the stickleback, after keeping it in his hand ..."
7. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"Observations on the Habits of the stickleback (bcing a continuation of a previous
paper). By ROBERT WARINGTON, Esq. DURING the early part of the last summer ..."
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