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词汇 prickleback
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Definition of prickleback in English:

prickleback

noun ˈprɪk(ə)lbakˈprɪkəlˌbæk
  • A long, slender fish with a spiny dorsal fin running the length of the body. It lives in cooler seas of the northern hemisphere, typically in shallow inshore waters.

    线鳚

    Family Stichaeidae: many genera and species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We fished for the pricklebacks (Cebidichthys violaceous) with poke poles -- long old-fashioned bamboo poles or modern plastic telescoping poles -- with short wire leaders and hooks baited with squid.
    • Two such methods include coiling the body around the eggs (pricklebacks and gunnels) and covering the eggs with algae (temperate sculpins and wrasses).
    • Pricklebacks are slithery, elusive and ugly as sin, but their taste is little short of divine.

Definition of prickleback in US English:

prickleback

nounˈprikəlˌbakˈprɪkəlˌbæk
  • A long, slender fish with a spiny dorsal fin running the length of the body. It lives in cooler seas of the northern hemisphere, typically in shallow inshore waters.

    线鳚

    Family Stichaeidae: many genera and species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We fished for the pricklebacks (Cebidichthys violaceous) with poke poles -- long old-fashioned bamboo poles or modern plastic telescoping poles -- with short wire leaders and hooks baited with squid.
    • Two such methods include coiling the body around the eggs (pricklebacks and gunnels) and covering the eggs with algae (temperate sculpins and wrasses).
    • Pricklebacks are slithery, elusive and ugly as sin, but their taste is little short of divine.
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