Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of numerous often small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, which includes the minnows, carps, and shiners.
- adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to the family Cyprinidae.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fish of the family Cyprinidæ.
- n. A mollusk of the family Cyprinidæ.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to or characteristic of the Cyprinidae family of fish that includes carps and minnows.
- n. Any fish of this family.
WordNet 3.0
- n. soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
- adj. of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae
Etymologies
- From New Latin Cyprīnidae, family name, from Cyprīnus, type genus, from Latin cyprīnus, carp, from Greek kuprīnos. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The high similarity between the goldfish and zebrafish olfactory systems allowed the creation of a 'cyprinid' olfactory epithelium library estimated to represent circa 70\% of the transcriptome.”
“While the warmer-water percid and cyprinid species are restricted to the southwest and unlikely to extend their range to the north (unless moved by humans) because of dispersal barriers [18], the euryhaline salmonids are able to move from estuary to estuary as conditions allow.”
Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations
“In Lake Tana, which is the source of the Blue Nile in the Ethiopian Highlands, about a quarter of the nearly 65 fish species are endemic, including a loach Nemacheilus abyssinicus and 14 large cyprinid barbs.”
“Roberts says that the new species is a member of the cyprinid subfamily Danioninae and is most closely related to two danionins from Inle Lake in Myanmar, Microrasbora rubescens and "Microrasbora" erythromicron.”
“(Carassius carassius), a close relative to the goldfish (Carassius auratus), looks very much like any other temperate freshwater cyprinid.”
“Pharyngeal bone of the small cyprinid that lives only in Lake Egirdir”
“In the Northeast Building, for instance, we found a pharyngeal bone of a small cyprinid (Pseudophoxinus handlirschii) in a context dated to the sixth-seventh centuries A.D.”
“Video, Torrent, Downloads | Poodlesnatcher There are many species of heavy-bodied cyprinid fishes collectively known in the US as Asian carp.”
“A strain of frog iridovirus, Rana grylio virus (RGV), and two fish cell lines, grass carp ovaries (GCO) and epithelioma papulosum cyprinid (EPC) cells, were used in these studies (GCO cell and EPC cell were maintained in our laboratory, please see the references) [29], [30]”
“Most groups of the living cyprinid have appeared in the Miocene although very few belong to the living genera.”
Lists
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fish list
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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hernesheir Belonging to the stomachless fish family Cyprinidae. Jul 14, 2010