three-spined stickleback

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English

Alternative forms

three-spine stickleback

Noun

three-spined stickleback (plural three-spined sticklebacks)

Gasterosteus aculeatus, a small fish of coastal and inland waters of the Northern Hemisphere, that can make its spines erect when threatened, which makes it hard to swallow.

References

three-spined stickleback on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Gasterosteus aculeatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Gasterosteus aculeatus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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