Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous often small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, which includes the minnows, carps, and shiners.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish of the family Cyprinidæ.
- noun A mollusk of the family Cyprinidæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to or characteristic of the
Cyprinidae family of fish that includescarps andminnows . - noun Any
fish of this family.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
- adjective of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The high similarity between the goldfish and zebrafish olfactory systems allowed the creation of a 'cyprinid' olfactory epithelium library estimated to represent circa 70\% of the transcriptome.
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Roberts says that the new species is a member of the cyprinid subfamily Danioninae and is most closely related to two danionins from Inle Lake in Myanmar, Microrasbora rubescens and "Microrasbora" erythromicron.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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While the warmer-water percid and cyprinid species are restricted to the southwest and unlikely to extend their range to the north (unless moved by humans) because of dispersal barriers [18], the euryhaline salmonids are able to move from estuary to estuary as conditions allow.
Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations 2009
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In Lake Tana, which is the source of the Blue Nile in the Ethiopian Highlands, about a quarter of the nearly 65 fish species are endemic, including a loach Nemacheilus abyssinicus and 14 large cyprinid barbs.
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(Carassius carassius), a close relative to the goldfish (Carassius auratus), looks very much like any other temperate freshwater cyprinid.
Evolution versus "Intelligent Design" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Pharyngeal bone of the small cyprinid that lives only in Lake Egirdir
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 4 2003
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In the Northeast Building, for instance, we found a pharyngeal bone of a small cyprinid (Pseudophoxinus handlirschii) in a context dated to the sixth-seventh centuries A.D.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 4 2003
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Video, Torrent, Downloads | Poodlesnatcher There are many species of heavy-bodied cyprinid fishes collectively known in the US as Asian carp.
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A strain of frog iridovirus, Rana grylio virus (RGV), and two fish cell lines, grass carp ovaries (GCO) and epithelioma papulosum cyprinid (EPC) cells, were used in these studies (GCO cell and EPC cell were maintained in our laboratory, please see the references) [29], [30]
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yu-Sin Kim et al. 2010
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Most groups of the living cyprinid have appeared in the Miocene although very few belong to the living genera.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
hernesheir commented on the word cyprinid
Belonging to the stomachless fish family Cyprinidae.
July 14, 2010