cyprinoid
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyprinoidea, a large suborder of teleost fishes including the cyprinids, characins, electric eels, and loaches
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of, relating to, or resembling the carp
noun
Etymology
Origin of cyprinoid
1840–50; < Latin cyprīn ( us ) (< Greek kyprînos carp) + -oid
Example Sentences
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Researches upon the cyprinoid fishes inhabitating the fresh waters of the United States of America, west of the Mississippi Valley, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Cross, Frank B.
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