NOUN | animal | prickleback | small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas |
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animal | prickleback, stickleback | small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship |
Sounds | prih'kahlbae.k | |
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Rhymes | aback ... zodiac: 126 rhymes with aek... |
Meaning | small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely / entirely of spines. | |
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Narrower | eelblenny | eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters |
snakeblenny, Lumpenus lumpretaeformis | Found in Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | |
Broader | blennioid fish, blennioid | elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins |
Meaning | small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research. | |
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Synonym | stickleback | |
Member of | Gasterosteidae, family Gasterosteidae | sticklebacks |
Narrower | ten-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus pungitius | Confined to rivers |
three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus | Of rivers and coastal regions | |
Broader | spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian | A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
Spanish | espinoso, gasterosteidae | |
Catalan | espinós, gasterosteid |
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