Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stickleback

1 sense of stickleback

Sense 1
stickleback, prickleback -- (small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research)
       => spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian -- (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)