Noun:

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stickleback's Usage Examples:

stickleback in a tank, for instance - what do you see?

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

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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.

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.

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.

noveboracensis, Three-Spined Stickleback.

The development the Stickleback; emb.

8, D) capable of living freely in water for at least a week (Bothriocephalus), which then, if eaten by a stickleback, throws off its ciliated envelope, and creeps by the aid of the hooks through the intestinal wall into the body-cavity of the fish.

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).

Synonyms:

prickleback, ten-spined stickleback, Gasterosteidae, acanthopterygian, family Gasterosteidae, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus pungitius, spiny-finned fish, Gasterosteus aculeatus,

Antonyms:

soft-finned fish,