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CYPRINIFORMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi
Synonyms:
Cypriniformes; order Cypriniformes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cypriniformes" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Cypriniformes"):
cypriniform fish (a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes)
Cobitidae; family Cobitidae (loaches)
Cyprinidae; family Cyprinidae (a family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace)
Electrophoridae; family Electrophoridae (small family comprising the electric eels)
Catostomidae; family Catostomidae (suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae)
Cyprinodontidae; family Cyprinodontidae (large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies)
family Poeciliidae; Poeciliidae (topminnows)
Characidae; family Characidae (tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America)
Holonyms ("Cypriniformes" is a member of...):
Malacopterygii; superorder Malacopterygii (an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays)
