Usually means: Small fish with three spines.
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  1. three-spined stickleback: Merriam-Webster
  2. three-spined stickleback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. three-spined stickleback, three-spined stickleback: Collins English Dictionary
  4. three-spined stickleback: Vocabulary.com
  5. three-spined stickleback: Wiktionary
  6. three-spined stickleback: Dictionary.com
  7. Three-spined stickleback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. three-spined stickleback: Rhymezone
  9. three-spined stickleback: FreeDictionary.org
  10. three-spined stickleback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. three-spined stickleback: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See three-spined_sticklebacks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (three-spined stickleback)

noun:  Gasterosteus aculeatus, a small fish of coastal and inland waters of the Northern Hemisphere, that can make its spines erect when threatened, which makes it hard to swallow.

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