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FAMILY CYPRINIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace
Synonyms:
Cyprinidae; family Cyprinidae
Classified under:
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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