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Meanings of stickleback in inglês

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gasterosteidae
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gasterosteidae
espanhol
gasterosteidae
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gasterosteids
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Family of fish (Gasterosteidae)

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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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Examples for "prickleback"
Examples for "prickleback"
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You have to stuff a prickleback down your dress, too.
Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers
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Rowboats ferried out archers and pikemen, the raised pikes making the boats look like gigantic pricklebacks swimming on the surface.
The great hunt
Usage of stickleback in inglês
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It's the best stickleback in the world, said a gull.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Let us begin with that familiar friend of our childhood, the common English stickleback.
A Book of Natural History / Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
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In many cases two or three females use the same nest, the stickleback being polygamous.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
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The stickleback is not so clever as it looks.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
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The paper on fish development was mainly based upon dissections of the young of the stickleback.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
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THE stickleback floundered about the boat, pricking and snapping until he was quite out of breath.
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
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Furthermore, individual differences in behavioral flexibility were negatively associated with foraging performance on ecologically relevant stickleback prey.
Pubmed
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I convinced myself that there was nothing here, nothing visible at present-notso much as a stickleback.
Nature Near London
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Instead of a smooth fat minnow, Mr. Jeremy landed little Jack Sharp the stickleback, covered with spines!
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
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These results correspond well with previous genomic studies in stickleback ecotype pairs that found similar levels of parallelism.
Pubmed
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Experimental diet manipulations in laboratory stickleback and mice confirmed that diet affects microbiota differently in males versus females.
Pubmed
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I'm a hopeless male three-spined stickleback.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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The big sex of a sports fish, or maybe the little sex of a small fish, a stickleback.
The Irish Times
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Some few years ago I put a male stickleback in a basin of water in charge of his nest.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
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Only let me finish it, and you shall have it in exchange for the stickleback you caught this morning.
The Settlers at Home
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On the crest of a cross-grained stickleback, that is caught with a crooked pin;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892
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gasterosteidae
Stickleback through the time