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Prickleback

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the fish in the family Stichaeidae.
  2. 2
    small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research wordnet
  3. 3
    A stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
  4. 4
    small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines wordnet

Etymology

From prickle + back.

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