CYPRINID

cyprinid, cyprinoid

(adjective) of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae

cyprinid, cyprinid fish

(noun) soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

cyprinid (comparative more cyprinid, superlative most cyprinid)

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of the Cyprinidae family of fish that includes carps and minnows.

Noun

cyprinid (plural cyprinids)

Any fish of this family.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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