three-spine sticklebacks

A form of three-spine stickleback — Gasterosteus aculeatus, a small fish of coastal and inland waters of the Northern Hemisphere, that can make its spines erect when threatened, which makes it hard to swallow.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of three-spine stickleback
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