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sticklebacks

sticklebacks is the plural of stickleback.

Meaning of stickleback

Noun

stickleback (plural sticklebacks)

  1. 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.
    • [I]n my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 1

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Questions about sticklebacks

What is sticklebacks the plural of?
Sticklebacks is the plural of stickleback.

Words near sticklebacks in the dictionary

  1. stickjaws
  2. sticklac
  3. Stickland
  4. stickle
  5. stickleback
  6. sticklebacks
  7. sticklebag
  8. sticklebags
  9. stickled
  10. Sticklepath
  11. stickler

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