stickleback

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
The father fish, meanwhile dances and capers around, in a pas de triomphe at the success of his endeavors One wife, however, does not suffice to fill the nest with eggs; and the stickleback is a firm believer in the advantages of large families.

View all »
Definitions (9)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun Any of various small freshwater and marine fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, having erectile spines along the back.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (6)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • A scientific study published a few months ago reports that the marine stickleback (the ones with the armor plates) came before freshwater sticklebacks (the ones without armor-plating), meaning that this is not an example of the evolution of a new function, but an example of loss-of-function, or what one might term —  Evolution News & Views
  • Finally, we must recall that these three studies focus primarily on the loss of traits ([stickleback] pelvic spines, wing spots, and trichomes). —  Evolution News & Views
  • The treatments killed an estimated 25 million stickleback, along with 80,000 suckers, 450 rainbow trout and 235 silver salmon. —  Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News
  • Three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
  • There are two forms of the stickleback: the oceanic and the freshwater type. —  Scientific Blogging
More examples »
 

Tags

stickleback hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 46 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English stikelbak : Old English sticel, prick; see steig- in Indo-European roots + Middle English bak, back; see back1.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Also corruptly sticklebag, and metamorphosed tittlebat; from Middle English *stikelbak, stykylbak; from stickle + back. Cf. thornback, and see stickling.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈstɪklbæk/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

organ · sedia · grimace · pliable · broaden

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich