Term: stickleback: small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
Candidate hypernym: aquatic vertebrate: animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water → 1
Candidate hypernym: rockabilly: a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat → 0
Candidate hypernym: decimal fraction: a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 → 0
Candidate hypernym: nolina: perennial plants resembling yucca; found in southern United States and Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: academy: a secondary school (usually private) → 0
Candidate hypernym: leak: a euphemism for urination → 0
Candidate hypernym: salter: someone who makes or deals in salt → 0
Candidate hypernym: imbroglio: a very embarrassing misunderstanding → 0
Candidate hypernym: harness horse: horse used for pulling vehicles → 0
Candidate hypernym: external gill: occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians → 0
Candidate hypernym: pauropoda: an obscure class of minute arthropods with branched antennae and 8 to 10 pairs of legs → 0