Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

three-spined stickleback

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables: three--spined -stick-le-back
IPA

42

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Inflected Forms

three-spined sticklebacks (plural) three-spine stickleback (alternative)

Synonyms

gasterosteus aculeatus

Questions

What does three-spined stickleback mean?: 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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