sticklebacks's Usage Examples:

"It is now known to consist of the young fry of herrings and sprats in varying proportions mixed with a few shrimps, gobies, sticklebacks, pope-fishes and young flounders: but these impurities are as far as possible picked out from the whitebait before it is marketed.

Its prey could have been 3-spined sticklebacks, which are commonly seen in the shallows from the vantage point of the bridge.

sticklebacks used to make their nest among it in the spring.

Three-spined sticklebacks are small bony fishes that live in a wide variety of aquatic habitats.

The Elasmobranchs swallow infected molluscs or fish; pike and trout devour smaller fry; birds pick up sticklebacks, insects and worms which contain Cestode larvae; and man lays himself open to infection by eating the uncooked or partially prepared flesh of many animals.

Lampreys, sticklebacks, cattoids, sturgeons - the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) is commonly known as the "Oregon sturgeon" - trout and salmon are the principal anadromous fish, the salmon and trout being the most important economically.

So far as is known at present, all sticklebacks construct a nest for the reception or the spawn, which is jealously guarded by the male until the young are hatched, which event takes place in from ten to eighteen days after oviposition.

Children use this section of the river to play - building bridges across the river and catching sticklebacks.

It is now known to consist of the young fry of herrings and sprats in varying proportions mixed with a few shrimps, gobies, sticklebacks, pope-fishes and young flounders: but these impurities are as far as possible picked out from the whitebait before it is marketed.

Gobies, blennies, butterfish and 3 spined sticklebacks are common in the rockpools.

The majority have a compressed well-proportioned body, which in the marine species is of a more elongate form, leading to the allied group of flute-mouths (Fistulariidae), which are, in fact, gigantic marine sticklebacks.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

soft-finned fish,