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    FAMILY CYPRINIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    Cyprinidae; family Cyprinidae

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    Nouns denoting animals

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

    fish family (any of various families of fish)

    Meronyms (members of "family 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 ("family 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)

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