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• noun (Context 1)
Any of various small, mostly scaleless fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, native to fresh, brackish, and coastal marine waters of the Northern Hemisphere, uniquely characterized by a row of sharp, isolated dorsal spines.
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"In his famous behavioral experiments, Niko Tinbergen observed that the male three-spined tiddler would aggressively attack anything displaying a red underside."
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tiddler
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