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stickleback

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I cannot imagine the stickleback is the only invertebrate carrying this genetic baggage.

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Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.

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noun

Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.

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noun

Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.

Example sentences

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I cannot imagine the stickleback is the only invertebrate carrying this genetic baggage.

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From that wiki page: > A small fish, especially the three-spined stickleback My wife, a neuroscientist researching three-spined stickleback, has never come across the term 'tiddler'.

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By conventional wisdom any individual ocean going fish trapped in these ponds is doomed but the ponds are populated now with freshwater Stickleback [2].

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They're variations on Tinbergen’s stickleback mandible spots.

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For some reason I recollect thinking it was about catching stickleback.

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There are much more interesting options: Like the Coastal Threespine Stickleback.

Proper noun examples

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There are much more interesting options: Like the Coastal Threespine Stickleback.

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How do you use stickleback in a sentence?

I cannot imagine the stickleback is the only invertebrate carrying this genetic baggage.

What does stickleback mean?

Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.

What part of speech is stickleback?

stickleback is commonly used as noun.