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Definition of Family Cyprinidae
1. Noun. A family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace.
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Cypriniformes, Order Cypriniformes
Member holonyms: Cyprinid, Cyprinid Fish, Carp, Cyprinus, Genus Cyprinus, Abramis, Genus Abramis, Genus Tinca, Tinca, Genus Leuciscus, Leuciscus, Genus Notropis, Notropis, Genus Notemigonus, Notemigonus, Genus Rutilus, Rutilus, Genus Scardinius, Scardinius, Genus Phoxinus, Phoxinus, Genus Gobio, Gobio, Carassius, Genus Carassius
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cyprinidae
Literary usage of Family Cyprinidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The carp family (Cyprinidae) is a large one and its members constitute the majority
of English sporting fishes. In America the various kinds of chub, ..."
2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... Cobitis (loach), all genera of the family Cyprinidae. Insects—Lepidoptera.— No
genera of butterflies are actually confined to this sub-region, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and in addition to hides and leather, it exports rubber and other forest products.
CARP, the typical fish of a large family (Cyprinidae) of ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It ¡sa fish whose sporting importance will be more realized as anglers on the
continent become more numerous, Cyprinidae,—The carp family (Cyprinidae) is a ..."
5. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1913)
"... Red-horse Sucker, Moxostoma aureolum 1 year Family CYPRINIDAE (Carps and Minnows).
Carp, Cyprinus carpio ' 4 years Mirror Carp, Cyprinus carpio, ..."
6. Sewage Disposal in the United States by George W. Rafter, Moses Nelson Baker (1893)
"Summarizing the food of the young of this family, Professor Forbes says: The fish
of the family Cyprinidae are of economic interest because* of furnishing ..."
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