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CYPRINIFORM FISH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cypriniform fish" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cypriniform fish"):
loach (slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes)
cyprinid; cyprinid fish (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)
electric eel; Electrophorus electric (eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body)
catostomid (a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae)
cyprinodont (any member of the family Cyprinodontidae)
live-bearer; poeciliid; poeciliid fish; topminnow (small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control)
characid; characin; characin fish (any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae)
Holonyms ("cypriniform fish" 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)
