Definition of Cyprids

1. cyprid [n] - See also: cyprid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyprids

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

Literary usage of Cyprids

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

1. The Geology of Central and Western Fife and Kinross: Being a Description of by Archibald Geikie, Benjamin Nieve Peach (1900)
"cyprids and fragments of plants abound in some of the layers. ... Blue shale (about 18 inches) full of cyprids and fragmentary plants, together with ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"Gravelly surface soil about 2 Brick earth ; towards the base Valvata piscinalis, cyprids, bones of ox, horse, elephant (? ..."

3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1900)
"... and cyprids on the surface of the carapace to fix the exact horizon whence the specimen came, but after diligent and careful search could not locate ..."

4. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1908)
"The purple and green slates contain bivalved Entomostraca or cyprids, and correspond ... At the junction of the grey, and purple and green slates cyprids, ..."

5. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Sir Archibald Geikie (1897)
"cyprids swarmed to such a degree as to form by their accumulated remains bands of limestone, which in the well- known Burdiehouse seam sometimes attain a ..."

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