"stickleback" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sticklebacks [plural]
Etymology: From dialectal stickle (“a prickle, spine, sting”), from Old English sticel + bæc. See stick (transitive verb) and compare banstickle. Etymology templates: {{m|en|stickle||a prickle, spine, sting}} stickle (“a prickle, spine, sting”), {{inh|en|ang|sticel}} Old English sticel, {{m|ang|bæc}} bæc, {{m|en|stick|pos=transitive verb}} stick (transitive verb), {{m|en|banstickle}} banstickle Head templates: {{en-noun}} stickleback (plural sticklebacks)
  1. Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds. Wikipedia link: stickleback Categories (lifeform): Gasterosteiform fish Synonyms: minnow [Britain, regional], sticklebag, sharpling Derived forms: three-spined stickleback Translations (fish of the family Gasterosteidae): бодливка (bodlivka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), къдринка (kǎdrinka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), punxoset [masculine] (Catalan), stekelbaars [masculine] (Dutch), piikkikala (Finnish), épinoche [feminine] (French), Stichling [masculine] (German), kärhiäin (Ingrian), biorach lodáin [masculine] (Irish), snáthaid mhara [feminine] (Irish), garmachán [masculine] (Irish), Spuerk [masculine] (Luxembourgish), êpinnoche [Jersey, feminine] (Norman), ко́люшка (kóljuška) [feminine] (Russian), pyn [neuter] (Scanian), bandy (Scots), baanie (Scots), réibean [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), spigg [common-gender] (Swedish), crothell [feminine] (Welsh)

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