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noun soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
adjective of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae
originBy 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.
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