prickleback

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noun

1. small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas;
a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
• Hypernyms:
blennioid fish, blennioid
• Hyponyms:
snakeblenny, Lumpenus lumpretaeformis, eelblenny
2. small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship;
subjects of much research
• Syn:
stickleback
• Hypernyms:
spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
• Hyponyms:
three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, ten-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus pungitius
• Member Holonyms:
Gasterosteidae, family Gasterosteidae