Zool. [mod.L., a. Gr. Κύπρις Aphrodite. (Names of Venus are applied to many shells.)] A genus of minute fresh-water crustacea, having the body enclosed in a delicate bivalve shell.
1832. Lyell, Princ. Geol., II. 275. This cypris inhabits the lakes and ponds of England where it is not uncommon.
1860. Gosse, Rom. Nat. Hist., 63. Tiny cyprides and cyclopes disporting in the umbrageous groves of their world.
