noun
1. small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
• Hypernyms: ↑blennioid fish, ↑blennioid
• Hyponyms: ↑snakeblenny, ↑Lumpenus lumpretaeformis, ↑eelblenny
2. small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
• Syn: ↑stickleback
• Hypernyms: ↑spiny-finned fish, ↑acanthopterygian
• Hyponyms: ↑three-spined stickleback, ↑Gasterosteus aculeatus, ↑ten-spined stickleback, ↑Gasterosteus pungitius
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gasterosteidae, ↑family Gasterosteidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.