stickleback

Speech parts

1. stickleback - Noun

2. stickleback - Verb

Meaning

Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

difficult fish barbed tricky spiny Paxton thorny prickly prickleback Buxton chopstick Paxson spined tittlebat Thorns
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Antonyms

simple easy smooth comfortable painless genial
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Hypernyms

acanthopterygian

Phrases with the word

ten-spined stickleback

Close letter words and terms

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