Usually means: Small, elongated fish with spines.
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  1. prickleback: Merriam-Webster
  2. prickleback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  4. prickleback: Wordnik
  5. prickleback: Wiktionary
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  8. Prickleback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Prickleback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
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  11. Prickleback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. prickleback: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (prickleback)

▸ noun:  Any of the fish in the family Stichaeidae.
▸ noun:  A stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).

Similar:
stickleback, stichaeid, pricklefish, monkeyface prickleback, stanstickle, spikefish, shanny, gasterosteid, sprat, spadefish, more...

Opposite:
smoothback, scaleless fish, non-prickly fish

Phrases:
monkeyface prickleback, more...

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Similar:
stickleback, stichaeid, pricklefish, monkeyface prickleback, stanstickle, spikefish, shanny, gasterosteid, sprat, spadefish, more...

Opposite:
smoothback, scaleless fish, non-prickly fish

Phrases:
monkeyface prickleback, more...



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