Stickleback Synonyms

stĭkəl-băk
Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. prickleback

Words Related to Stickleback

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. three-spined
  2. gasterosteus
  3. 3-spined
  4. sticklebacks
  5. dogfish
  6. rockling
  7. goby
  8. bubalis
  9. spinachia
  10. blenny

Stickleback Sentence Examples

  • Of the species known not one has so wide a geographical range, and has so well been studied, as the common British threespined stickleback (Gastrosteus aculeatus).

  • The ten-spined stickleback (Gastrosteus pungitius) is so called from the number of spines usually composing its first dorsal fin, which, however, may be sometimes reduced to eight or nine or increased to eleven.

  • Female stickleback have silver bellies, this is the stimulus that attracts the males.

  • A small stickleback kept in an aquarium devoured, in five hours' time, 74 newly-hatched dace, which were about a quarter of an inch long.

  • By this it is brought into contact with the fin of a fish, such as perch, stickleback or others, and effects a hold thereon by means of the toothed edge of its shells.

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