cyprinid fish

Questions about cyprinid fish

What does cyprinid fish mean?

cyprinid fish means "soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales".

What is another word for cyprinid fish?

Close synonyms include cyprinid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cyprinid fish a common word?

cyprinid fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.