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Cyprinidae   Listen
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Cyprinidae  n.  A natural family of fishes including the carp; tench; roach; rudd; and dace.
Synonyms: family Cyprinidae.





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"Cyprinidae" Quotes from Famous Books



... yellow and dark longitudinal lines, and probably belonging to the Cyprinidae, was caught. Wind prevailed from the northward: the forenoon was cloudless; heavy ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt
... "is an animal less syllogistical or more silly-Jemical, than many creatures popularly esteemed his inferiors. Yes, let but one of those Cyprinidae, with his fine sense of logic, see that if his fellow-fishes eat bread, they, are suddenly jerked out of their element and vanish forever, and though you broke a quartern loaf into crumbs, he would snap his tail at you with enlightened contempt. ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... of fishes, again, I might say much on the curious fact that the Cyprinidae, or white fish—carp, etc.—and their natural enemy, the pike, are indigenous, I believe, only to the rivers, English or continental, on the eastern side of the Straits of Dover; while the rivers on the western side were originally ...
— Scientific Essays and Lectures • Charles Kingsley


Words linked to "Cyprinidae" :   Cyprinus, genus Scardinius, Tinca, genus Abramis, genus Notemigonus, genus Carassius, Phoxinus, Gobio, Notropis, Abramis, carp, Scardinius, genus Leuciscus, genus Rutilus, Carassius, genus Phoxinus, cyprinid fish, Notemigonus, family Cyprinidae, Cypriniformes


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