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Meaning of rough-tailed stickleback in English:

rough-tailed stickleback

noun

historical

  • A three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, of the marine (trachurus) form.

    Formerly regarded as a distinct species, G. trachurus.

Origin

Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Leonard Jenyns (1800–1893), naturalist.