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Prickleback

Prickleback Meaning & Definition
Prickleback Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Prickleback?

[n] small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
[n] small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines

Synonyms | Synonyms for Prickleback: stickleback

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See Also | acanthopterygian | blennioid | blennioid fish | eelblenny | family Gasterosteidae | Gasterosteidae | Gasterosteus aculeatus | Gasterosteus pungitius | Lumpenus lumpretaeformis | snakeblenny | spiny-finned fish | ten-spined stickleback | three-spined stickleback

Prickleback In Webster's Dictionary

\Pric"kle*back`\, Pricklefish \Pric"kle*fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The stickleback.

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