cyprinid

[si-prahy-nid, sip-ruh-]

noun

1. any fish belonging to the Cyprinidae, or minnow family.

adjective

1. carplike in form or structure.

cyprinid

/ ˈsɪprɪnɪd, sɪˈpraɪnɪd /

noun

1. 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

1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyprinidae

2. resembling a carp; cyprinoid

Word History and Origins

Origin of cyprinid¹

1890–95; < New Latin Cyprinidae name of family, equivalent to Cyprīn ( us ) genus name (< Latin < Greek kyprînos carp) + -idae -id ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of cyprinid¹

C19: from New Latin Cyprīnidae, from Latin cyprīnus carp, from Greek kuprinos

Example Sentences

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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