three-spined stickleback

English

Alternative forms

• three-spine stickleback

Noun

three-spined stickleback (plural three-spined sticklebacks)

1. 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.

Translations

G. aculeatus

• Catalan: punxoset (ca) m, espinós (ca) m, jonqueter m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三刺魚 / 三刺鱼 (sāncìyú)

• Greek: αγκαθερό (el) n (agkatheró)
• Japanese: 糸魚 (itoyo)
• Polish: ciernik (pl) m, kat (pl) m, kolka (pl) f, czart (pl) m
• Russian: трёхиглая ко́люшка f (trjóxiglaja kóljuška)
• Swedish: storspigg c

References

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