Results for stickleback

Definitions of stickleback:

part of speech: noun

A small river- fish, so called from the spines on its back.

part of speech: noun

A class of scaleless fish with spines, or thornlike projections, on their bodies.

Usage examples for stickleback:

• As to the Stickleback Mothers- well, that is different. "Among the Pond People", Clara Dillingham Pierson

• " Well, I'll tell you what I think," said another Stickleback Mother. "Among the Pond People", Clara Dillingham Pierson

• The specimens I obtained from three individuals, resident some distance from each other, were of two species, the common minnow and the three- spined stickleback the former most abundant, and mostly very small, though some had attained their full size. "The Romance of Natural History, Second Series", Philip Henry Gosse