CYPRINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cyprinidae mean? 

• CYPRINIDAE (noun)
  The noun CYPRINIDAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace

  Familiarity information: CYPRINIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYPRINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cyprinidae; family Cyprinidae

Hypernyms ("Cyprinidae" is a kind of...):

fish family (any of various families of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Cyprinidae"):

cyprinid; cyprinid fish (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)

carp (any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Cyprinus; genus Cyprinus (type genus of the family Cyprinidae: carp)

Abramis; genus Abramis (European fishes)

genus Tinca; Tinca (tench)

genus Leuciscus; Leuciscus (a genus of fish including: dace, chub)

genus Notropis; Notropis (shiners)

genus Notemigonus; Notemigonus (golden shiners)

genus Rutilus; Rutilus (roaches)

genus Scardinius; Scardinius (rudds)

genus Phoxinus; Phoxinus (minnows)

genus Gobio; Gobio (true gudgeons)

Carassius; genus Carassius (goldfish)

Holonyms ("Cyprinidae" is a member of...):

Cypriniformes; order Cypriniformes (an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi)