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stickleback

[stik-uhl-bak]

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any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.

Also called prickleback.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English stykylbak, equivalent to Old English sticol scaly + bæc back¹

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stickleback (ˈstɪk^əlˌbæk)

—n
	any small teleost fish of the family Gasterosteidae, such as Gasterosteus aculeatus (three-spined stickleback) of rivers and coastal regions and G. pungitius (ten-spined stickleback) confined to rivers. They have a series of spines along the back and occur in cold and temperate northern regions

[C15: from Old English stickel prick, sting + back¹]

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stickleback

c.1400, from O.E. sticel "prick, sting" (from P.Gmc. *stik- "pierce, prick, be sharp;" see stick (v.)) + back.

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