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Meanings of stickleback in English
Catalan
espinós Spanish
gasterosteidae Small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research.
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It's the best stickleback in the world, said a gull.
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Let us begin with that familiar friend of our childhood, the common English stickleback.
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In many cases two or three females use the same nest, the stickleback being polygamous.
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The stickleback is not so clever as it looks.
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The paper on fish development was mainly based upon dissections of the young of the stickleback.
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THE stickleback floundered about the boat, pricking and snapping until he was quite out of breath.
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Furthermore, individual differences in behavioral flexibility were negatively associated with foraging performance on ecologically relevant stickleback prey.
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I convinced myself that there was nothing here, nothing visible at present-notso much as a stickleback.
9
Instead of a smooth fat minnow, Mr. Jeremy landed little Jack Sharp the stickleback, covered with spines!
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These results correspond well with previous genomic studies in stickleback ecotype pairs that found similar levels of parallelism.
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Experimental diet manipulations in laboratory stickleback and mice confirmed that diet affects microbiota differently in males versus females.
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I'm a hopeless male three-spined stickleback.
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The big sex of a sports fish, or maybe the little sex of a small fish, a stickleback.
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Some few years ago I put a male stickleback in a basin of water in charge of his nest.
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Only let me finish it, and you shall have it in exchange for the stickleback you caught this morning.
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On the crest of a cross-grained stickleback, that is caught with a crooked pin;
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