a. and sb. Ichth. [f. L. cyprīnus carp + -OID.]

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  A.  adj. Resembling or allied to the carp; belonging to the division Cyprinoidea of fishes, comprising the Cyprinidæ and other families.

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1859.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., V. 287. In the cyprinoid families.

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1876.  Beneden, Anim. Parasites, 9. A cyprinoid fish.

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  B.  sb. A fish belonging to the Cyprinoidea.

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1849–52.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 1146/2. The vascular tissue … on the palate of the Cyprinoids.

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1878.  Bell, Gegenbaur’s Comp. Anat., 525. In the Cyprinoids the mucous membrane … is interwoven with … muscular fibres.

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  Hence Cyprinoidean a. and sb.

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