CYPRINIFORM FISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cypriniform fish mean? 

• CYPRINIFORM FISH (noun)
  The noun CYPRINIFORM FISH has 1 sense:

1. a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes

  Familiarity information: CYPRINIFORM FISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYPRINIFORM FISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes

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Nouns denoting animals

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)