Definition of "cyprinid" [cyprinid]

• Any of numerous often small freshwater fishes of the family Cyprinidae, which includes the minnows, carps, and shiners. (noun)
• Of, relating to, or belonging to the family Cyprinidae. (adjective)

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• "The high similarity between the goldfish and zebrafish olfactory systems allowed the creation of a 'cyprinid' olfactory epithelium library estimated to represent circa 70\% of the transcriptome."
• "While the warmer-water percid and cyprinid species are restricted to the southwest and unlikely to extend their range to the north (unless moved by humans) because of dispersal barriers [18], the euryhaline salmonids are able to move from estuary to estuary as conditions allow."
• "In Lake Tana, which is the source of the Blue Nile in the Ethiopian Highlands, about a quarter of the nearly 65 fish species are endemic, including a loach Nemacheilus abyssinicus and 14 large cyprinid barbs."