Definition of Cyprides

1. cypris [n] - See also: cypris

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyprides

cypre
cyprenorphine
cypres
cypreses
cypress
cypress family
cypress pine
cypress sedge
cypress spurge
cypress tree
cypress vine
cypress vines
cypresses
cyprians
cyprid
cyprides (current term)
cyprids
cyprine
cyprinid
cyprinid fish
cyprinidae
cyprinids
cypriniform
cypriniform fish
cypriniformes
cypriniforms
cyprinodont
cyprinodontiformes
cyprinodonts

Literary usage of Cyprides

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

1. Geological Excursions Round the Isle of Wight, and Along the Adjacent Coast by Gideon Algernon Mantell (1854)
"These beds of fluviatile shells and cyprides, with scarcely any intermixture of other organic remains, which are spread over such wide areas of the Wealden ..."

2. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1862)
"cyprides, Pyroxene, &c.—On examining portions of the thin stratum of the Freshwater Formation which is exposed in the great scarp of blue trap in the quarry ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1842)
"Dr. Hib- bert described in 1834, to the British Association at Edinburgh, what he conceived to be freshwater cyprides in the limestones of ..."

4. A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1860)
"All the species seem peculiar, and among these the cyprides are very abundant and characteristic. (See figs. 334, a, b, c.) Fig. 834. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1904)
"... welded to a fissile lime-stone containing cyprides in the upper half. ... for the cyprides in the upper half of the block, viz., the fissile stone, ..."

6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"The copulation of the cyprides appears to take place in the mud. ... Although the young cyprides undergo no metamorphosis like those of a great number of ..."

7. Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession by John Phillips (1860)
"... with cyprides and Gasteropoda and land- plants. ... cyprides, &c. „ Upper Old Red. Unio, in one locality, ..."

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