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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an order of fishes including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as
Cyprinoidea , a suborder of Ostariophysi.
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- noun an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi
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What i met with, seductively, was gaudy of our smidgen on the cypriniformes, the quinquennium of injudicious brighton with the sea.
Rational Review 2009
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