prickleback

Meanings

Plural: pricklebacks

Noun

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

Origin / Etymology

From prickle + back.

Synonyms

stickleback

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