stickleback
IPA: stˈɪkʌɫbæk
noun
- Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.
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Examples of "stickleback" in Sentences
- Collision and sinking of submarine Stickleback.
- The weapon was also known as the 'stickleback'.
- The most important small fish is the stickleback.
- Correlated evolution and dietary change in fossil stickleback.
- I'd like to put it also on the new three spined stickleback page.
- Trout and three spined stickleback also occur in the same habitat.
- The run up to this saw the first arcs of new series Stickleback and Kingdom.
- The run up to this saw the first arcs of new series Stickleback and Kingdom .
- Another example of fixed action patterns is the red bellied stickleback fish .
- Pink Lake also has a desalinized variant of the three spined stickleback fish.
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