GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gasterosteus aculeatus mean? 

• GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS (noun)
  The noun GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS has 1 sense:

1. of rivers and coastal regions

  Familiarity information: GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of rivers and coastal regions

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Gasterosteus aculeatus; three-spined stickleback

Hypernyms ("Gasterosteus aculeatus" is a kind of...):

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)

Holonyms ("Gasterosteus aculeatus" is a member of...):

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