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单词 heckleback
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hecklebackn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: heckle n., back n.1
Etymology: < heckle n. + back n.1, so called on account of the resemblance of the spines on the fish's back to a hackle. Compare earlier hackle n.2 3.
Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.
The fifteen-spined or sea stickleback, Spinachia spinachia.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Gasterosteidae > spinachia vulgaris (sea-stickleback)
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1699 R. Sibbald Provision for Poor iii. 23 The Sea Bream, the Sand Eel, the Hake,..the Heckleback, [etc.].
1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross Our Fishers call it the Stronachie or Heckleback.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Heckleback, the fifteen spined Stickleback, a fish; Gasterosus spinachia... The name is evidently borrowed from its resemblance to a hackle or flax-comb.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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