Definition of Cyprinids

1. Noun. (plural of cyprinid) ¹

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Definition of Cyprinids

1. cyprinid [n] - See also: cyprinid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyprinids

cypress sedge
cypress spurge
cypress tree
cypress vine
cypress vines
cypresses
cyprians
cyprid
cyprides
cyprids
cyprine
cyprinid
cyprinid fish
cyprinidae
cyprinids (current term)
cypriniform
cypriniform fish
cypriniformes
cypriniforms
cyprinodont
cyprinodontiformes
cyprinodonts
cyprinoid
cyprinoids
cypripedia
cypripedium
cypripediums
cypris

Literary usage of Cyprinids

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... of bream and other cyprinids, most of them being imported alive from Holland and sold in the Jewish fish markets. In America the name bream is commonly ..."

2. The Letter of Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca, Dated 1484 by Diego Alvarez Chanca, Augstine Marcus Fernández de Ybarra (1907)
"SOME NOTEWORTHY EXTRA-EUROPEAN cyprinids BY THEODORE GILL In a former article on " The Family of cyprinids and the Carp as its Type," were considered a few ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1906)
"The cyprinids are further represented by a few Labeo and ... The western district is also poor, and has only representatives of three families: cyprinids, ..."

4. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"One noteworthy fact is that the middle west and the east, in spite of its immense rivers, have no cyprinids as large as many of those characteristic of ..."

5. Report of the Eighth International Geographic Congress, Held in the United (1905)
"... would be generally admitted, at least as earl\r as the Jurassic, and possibly as early as the Carboniferous epoch. The later origin of the cyprinids, ..."

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