Stickleback

  • 11Stickleback (disambiguation) — Stickleback can also refer to:*Stickleback, a type of fish *Stickleback (comics), a 2000 AD series by Ian Edginton and D Israeli *USS Stickleback (SS 415), a United States Navy submarine * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stickleback/ Stickleback …

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  • 12Stickleback (comics) — Infobox comic book title title = Stickleback caption = schedule = Weekly format = publisher = 2000 AD (Rebellion) date = 2006 2008 issues = Steampunk = y AltHistory = y multigenre = y main char team = writers = Ian Edginton artists = D Israeli… …

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  • 13stickleback pinfish — keturspyglė dyglė statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Apeltes quadracus angl. bloody stickleback; four spined stickleback; stickleback pinfish rus. четырёхиглая колюшка ryšiai: platesnis terminas –… …

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  • 14Stickleback class submarine — The Stickleback class submarines were midget submarines of the Royal Navy initially ordered as improved versions of the older XE class submarines. The Royal Navy may have intended to use these craft to carry a 2 ton nuclear mine (based around the …

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  • 15stickleback — noun (plural backs; also back) Etymology: Middle English stykylbak, from Old English sticel goad + Middle English bak back; akin to Old English stician to stick Date: 15th century any of a family (Gasterosteidae) of small scaleless bony fishes… …

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  • 16stickleback — noun Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Syn: sticklebag, sharpling …

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  • 17stickleback — stick|le|back [ stıkl,bæk ] noun count a small fish with sharp points along its back that lives in rivers …

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  • 19stickleback — stick•le•back [[t]ˈstɪk əlˌbæk[/t]] n. ich any of the small, pugnacious, spiny backed fish of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets • Etymology: 1400–50; late ME stykylbak= OE sticels goad, thorn (c.… …

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  • 20stickleback — n. any small fish of the family Gasterosteidae, esp. Gasterosteus aculeatus, with sharp spines along the back. Etymology: ME f. OE sticel thorn, sting + baeligc BACK …

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