GASTEROSTEIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gasterosteidae mean? 

• GASTEROSTEIDAE (noun)
  The noun GASTEROSTEIDAE has 1 sense:

1. sticklebacks

  Familiarity information: GASTEROSTEIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTEROSTEIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sticklebacks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Gasterosteidae; Gasterosteidae

Hypernyms ("Gasterosteidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Gasterosteidae"):

prickleback; stickleback (small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research)

Gasterosteus; genus gasterosteus (type genus of the family Gasterosteidae)

Holonyms ("Gasterosteidae" is a member of...):

order Solenichthyes; Solenichthyes (bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout)