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Definition of Ten-spined stickleback
1. Noun. Confined to rivers.
Exact synonyms: Gasterosteus Pungitius
Generic synonyms: Prickleback, Stickleback
Group relationships: Gasterosteus, Genus Gasterosteus
Generic synonyms: Prickleback, Stickleback
Group relationships: Gasterosteus, Genus Gasterosteus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ten-spined Stickleback
Literary usage of Ten-spined stickleback
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell (1841)
"THE ten-spined stickleback is one of the smallest of the fishes that occur ...
170, hints at the existence of a second species of ten-spined stickleback—the ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"A still smaller species—the ten-spined stickleback (G. pungitius. Linn.)—is
distinguished, as its English name implies, by the possession of ten spines on ..."
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