carp

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Grass carp, nile tilapia, silver carp, and variegated carp were stocked at a rate of about 12 000 fish/ha.

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  1. intransitive verb To find fault in a disagreeable way; complain fretfully. See Synonyms at quibble.
  2. noun A fretful complaint.
  3. noun An edible freshwater fish (Cyprinus carpio) of Europe and Asia that is frequently bred in ponds and lakes.

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  • Grass carp, nile tilapia, silver carp, and variegated carp were stocked at a rate of about 12 000 fish/ha. —  Chapter 5
  • Common carp or grass carp are the main species, but some tilapia are cultivated later in the year. —  Chapter 4
  • It's always there, just under the surface, just behind the façade, sometimes very nearly exposed, so that you can dimly see the shape of it as you can see sometimes through the surface of an ornamental pond on a still day, the dark, gross, inhuman outline of a carp gliding slowly past; when you realize suddenly that the carp were always there below the surface, even while the water sparkled in the sunshine, and while you patronized the quaint ducks and the supercilious swans, the carp were down there, unseen. —  Pragmatic Theater
  • a polyculture of grass carp, common carp, and silver carp is used in the ratio of 3: 6: 1. —  Chapter 4
  • I forgot about the hat and hit the rod, again the rod went over and again I had another uneventful fight on the way in, once in the margins this carp did fight a little harder than the last one but the carp was always fighting a loosing battle and after a few minutes I slipped the net under my second fish of the day, this one turned out to be a mirror and it weighed in at 15lb 4oz, another mid double and it wasn't even midday!. —  British Blogs
 

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  1. Middle English carpen, from Old Norse karpa, to boast.
  2. Middle English carpe, from Old French carpe, from Medieval Latin carpa, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English carpen, speak, say, tell, from Icelandic karpa, boast, brag (karp, bragging), = Swedish dial. karpa, brag, boast, apparently the same as Swedish dial. garpa = Norwegian garpa, brag, boast; cf. Icelandic garpr = Old Swedish garp = Norwegian garp, a warlike or boastful man, also a term applied in the middle ages to the Hanseatic traders in Sweden and Norway. The orig. sense ‘speak’ or ‘talk’ has taken in modern use a sinister addition, ‘talk censoriously,’ apparently by association with the L. carpere, carp at, slander, calumniate, revile, also, figuratively, pluck, pick, crop, gather, tear off, pull in pieces, perhaps akin to Greek καρπός, fruit (that which is gathered), and to English harvest, q. v.
  2. Middle English: see carp, v.
  3. from Middle English carpe (not found in Anglo-Saxon) = Dutch karper = Old High German charpho, carfo, Middle High German carphe, karpe, German karpfen, karpfe = Icelandic karfi= Swedish karp = Danish karpe; hence (from Teutonic) Middle Latin (Late Latin) carpa (later F. carpe= Provencal escarpa = Spanish Portuguese Italian carpa = Walloon crap), later carpo(n-), carpio(n-) (later Italian carpio, carpione), and prob. Polish karp = Servian karpa = Russian karpŭ = Bohemian kapr = Lettish karpa; also Welsh carp, Gaelic carbhanach, a carpentry Prob. an orig. Teutonic word; if so, the other forms are borrowed.
 

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