Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ten-spined_stickleback

1 sense of ten-spined stickleback

Sense 1
ten-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus pungitius -- (confined to rivers)
       => 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)