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Definition of Three-spined stickleback
1. Noun. Of rivers and coastal regions.
Generic synonyms: Prickleback, Stickleback
Group relationships: Gasterosteus, Genus Gasterosteus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Three-spined Stickleback
Literary usage of Three-spined stickleback
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Fishes of the British Islands by Jonathan Couch (1868)
"... attached to the thorax, nor behind to the pelvis, but to the belly between
these parts, and nearly under the pectoral fins. three-spined stickleback. ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1831)
"The common three-spined stickleback was numerous in the same pond ; and, of a
number taken in a net at random, about one in ten or twelve proved to be of ..."
3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1831)
"The common three-spined stickleback was numerous in the same pond ; and, of a
number taken in a net at random, about one in ten or twelve proved to be of ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"The three-spined stickleback is a very active and voracious little fellow, ...
To take a single instance, a small three-spined stickleback kept in an ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"... they are very active and voracious, and live upon • ;•!•.-ни' insects and worms.
The most common species is the three-spined stickleback ..."
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