Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a carp or other cyprinid fish.
- n. A cyprinoid fish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Carplike; cyprine; pertaining to or having the characters of the Cyprinoidea.
- n. A carp or carp-like fish; a fish of cyprinoid character; one of the Cyprinoidea.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling fish of the order Cypriniformes - carps, minnows and loaches.
- n. A fish of that order.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Like the carp (Cyprinus).
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae
Etymologies
- From New Latin Cyprīnoīdea, suborder name : Cyprīnus, type genus; see cyprinid + -oīdea, neuter pl. of -oīdēs, -oid. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The temperature of the principal spring is 75 degrees; it contains abundance of fish -- a loach and cyprinoid.”
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