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cyprinid

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8 lettersPart of speech noun, adjectiveSorted cdiinpryStarts with CEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales

Word origin

By surface analysis, an appellativization from Cyprinid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin cyprin(us) (“type of carp”) + -id.

Used in a sentence

  • Romanichthys, commonly known as the Romanian darter, is a very primitive cyprinid which has two dorsal fins and a covering of rough scales.

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