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- Stickleback - v. t. - 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.
- Burnstickle - n. - A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
- Sea adder - - The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.