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cyprinid
[ si-prahy-nid, sip-ruh- ]
noun
- any fish belonging to the Cyprinidae, or minnow family.
adjective
- carplike in form or structure.
cyprinid
/ ˈsɪprɪnɪd; sɪˈpraɪnɪd /
noun
- any teleost fish of the mainly freshwater family Cyprinidae, typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales and including such food and game fishes as the carp, tench, roach, rudd, and dace
adjective
- of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyprinidae
- resembling a carp; cyprinoid
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of cyprinid1
C19: from New Latin īidae, from Latin īԳܲ carp, from Greek kuprinos
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As night settles, a fisherman of silver cyprinid readies a lantern to be cast into the waters of Lake Victoria, in Kenya.
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No. 1, by the way, is a European cyprinid, which Dr. Schaefer described as a relative of the carp minnow.
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A few minutes later, it is brought in: kilograms of silver cyprinid - the size of whitebait - glisten in the morning sun.
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"I knew from the second I met her, through a sheen of cyprinid's blood, that we'd be fused by the neck until death".
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Notropis amnis, a new cyprinid fish of the Mississippi fauna, with two subspecies.
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