stickleback
English Thesaurus
1. small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish, |
| definition | : | a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gasterosteus aculeatus, three-spined stickleback, |
| definition | : | of rivers and coastal regions (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gasterosteus pungitius, ten-spined stickleback, |
| definition | : | confined to rivers (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family gasterosteidae, gasterosteidae, |
| definition | : | sticklebacks (noun.animal) |
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