Definition of Family Cyprinidae

1. Noun. A family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cyprinidae

family Cucurbitaceae
family Culicidae
family Cunoniaceae
family Cupressaceae
family Curculionidae
family Cuterebridae
family Cyatheaceae
family Cycadaceae
family Cyclopteridae
family Cymatiidae
family Cynipidae
family Cynocephalidae
family Cynoglossidae
family Cyperaceae
family Cypraeidae
family Cyprinidae (current term)
family Cyprinodontidae
family Cyrilliaceae
family Dacninae
family Dacrymycetaceae
family Dactylopiidae
family Dactylopteridae
family Dactyloscopidae
family Danaidae
family Dasyatidae
family Dasypodidae
family Dasyproctidae
family Dasyuridae
family Dasyurinae
family Daubentoniidae

Literary usage of Family Cyprinidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The carp family (Cyprinidae) is a large one and its members constitute the majority of English sporting fishes. In America the various kinds of chub, ..."

2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... Cobitis (loach), all genera of the family Cyprinidae. Insects—Lepidoptera.— No genera of butterflies are actually confined to this sub-region, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and in addition to hides and leather, it exports rubber and other forest products. CARP, the typical fish of a large family (Cyprinidae) of ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It ¡sa fish whose sporting importance will be more realized as anglers on the continent become more numerous, Cyprinidae,—The carp family (Cyprinidae) is a ..."

5. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1913)
"... Red-horse Sucker, Moxostoma aureolum 1 year Family CYPRINIDAE (Carps and Minnows). Carp, Cyprinus carpio ' 4 years Mirror Carp, Cyprinus carpio, ..."

6. Sewage Disposal in the United States by George W. Rafter, Moses Nelson Baker (1893)
"Summarizing the food of the young of this family, Professor Forbes says: The fish of the family Cyprinidae are of economic interest because* of furnishing ..."

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