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PRICKLEBACK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
Synonyms:
prickleback; stickleback
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("prickleback" is a kind of...):
acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prickleback"):
Gasterosteus aculeatus; three-spined stickleback (of rivers and coastal regions)
Gasterosteus pungitius; ten-spined stickleback (confined to rivers)
Holonyms ("prickleback" is a member of...):
family Gasterosteidae; Gasterosteidae (sticklebacks)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("prickleback" is a kind of...):
blennioid; blennioid fish (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prickleback"):
Lumpenus lumpretaeformis; snakeblenny (found in Arctic and northern Atlantic waters)
eelblenny (eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters)
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