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cyprinoid

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cyp⋅ri⋅noid

  [sip-ruh-noid, si-prahy-noid]
–adjective
1. resembling a carp; belonging to the Cyprinoidea, a group of fishes including the carps, suckers, and loaches.
–noun
2. a cyprinoid fish.
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Origin:
1840–50; < L cyprīn(us) (< Gk kyprînos carp) + -oid
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cyp·ri·noid   (sĭp'rə-noid', sĭ-prī'-)   
adj.  Of, relating to, or resembling a carp or other cyprinid fish.
n.  A cyprinoid fish.

[From New Latin Cyprīnoīdea, suborder name : Cyprīnus, type genus; see cyprinid + -oīdea, neuter pl. of -oīdēs, -oid.]
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