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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRICKLEBACK; PRICKLEFISH

PRICKLEBACK; PRICKLEFISH Pric "kle *back `, Pric "kle *fish `, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: The stickleback.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

prickleback

prick le back |ˈprikəlˌbak ˈprɪkəlbæk | ▶noun a long slender fish with a spiny dorsal fin running the length of the body. It lives in cooler seas of the northern hemisphere, typically in shallow inshore waters. [Family Stichaeidae: many genera and species. ]

 

Oxford Dictionary

prickleback

prickle |back ▶noun a long, slender fish with a spiny dorsal fin running the length of the body. It lives in cooler seas of the northern hemisphere, typically in shallow inshore waters. ●Family Stichaeidae: many genera and species.