Definition of Cyprinoids

1. Noun. (plural of cyprinoid) ¹

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Definition of Cyprinoids

1. cyprinoid [n] - See also: cyprinoid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyprinoids

cyprids
cyprine
cyprinid
cyprinid fish
cyprinidae
cyprinids
cypriniform
cypriniform fish
cypriniformes
cypriniforms
cyprinodont
cyprinodontiformes
cyprinodonts
cyprinoid
cyprinoids (current term)
cypripedia
cypripedium
cypripediums
cypris
cyprodime
cyproheptadine
cyproheptadine hydrochloride
cyproheptadines
cyproterones
cypruses

Literary usage of Cyprinoids

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

1. West African Fisheries, with Particular Reference to the Gold Coast Colony by Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney (1883)
"this latter, a branch of the cyprinoids, the African Carps and Barbels resembling, on the whole, more Indian than Europo- Asiatic forms. ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Borneo abounds in cyprinoids ; from the Philippine Islands a lew only are known at present, ... Taking into consideration the manner in which cyprinoids and ..."

3. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"1 know, of my own fishing experience (pursued alter a different manner from the kingfishers, however), that millions of cyprinoids are found there, ..."

4. A Naturalist's Rambles about Home by Charles Conrad Abbott (1884)
"cyprinoids, as a class, are carnivorous, or more properly omnivorous; and although ... It is in this way, I believe, that the cyprinoids aid materially in ..."

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