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GASTEROSTEIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sticklebacks
Synonyms:
family Gasterosteidae; Gasterosteidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Gasterosteidae" is a kind of...):
fish family (any of various families of fish)
Meronyms (members of "Gasterosteidae"):
prickleback; stickleback (small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research)
Gasterosteus; genus gasterosteus (type genus of the family Gasterosteidae)
Holonyms ("Gasterosteidae" is a member of...):
order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)
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