cyprinus carpio

Questions about cyprinus carpio

What does cyprinus carpio mean?

cyprinus carpio means "large Old World freshwater bottom-feeding fish introduced into Europe from Asia; inhabits ponds and sluggish streams and often raised for food; introduced into United States where it has become a pest".

What is another word for cyprinus carpio?

Close synonyms include domestic carp. 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 cyprinus carpio a common word?

cyprinus carpio 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.