English Dictionary

stickleback

名詞

Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.

日本語の意味

ガスターリデ科に属する小型魚の一種。背部に2本以上の鋭い棘を持ち、塩水や汽水域に生息し、藻類などを使って巣を作る。

The male stickleback painstakingly wove bits of weed into a nest among the reeds in the brackish estuary.

オスのトゲウオは汽水域の葦の間で、藻の切れ端を丹念に編んで巣を作った。

意味（1）

Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.

[I]n my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.

sticklebacks （ plural ）