WordNet: prickleback, stickleback

small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research

• hypernym acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish

• hyponym Gasterosteus aculeatus, three-spined stickleback

• hyponym Gasterosteus pungitius, ten-spined stickleback

• member holonym Gasterosteidae, family Gasterosteidae

prickleback

• (suomi) ahvenkala (alakäsite)

stickleback

• (suomi) ahvenkala (alakäsite)