gasterosteus aculeatus

1. 1.

   of rivers and coastal regions

   Synonymsthree-spined stickleback

   Broaderstickleback

   Part ofGasterosteus

Questions about gasterosteus aculeatus

What does gasterosteus aculeatus mean?

gasterosteus aculeatus means "of rivers and coastal regions".

What is another word for gasterosteus aculeatus?

Close synonyms include three-spined stickleback. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gasterosteus aculeatus a common word?

gasterosteus aculeatus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.