Crossword-Solution: CYPRINUS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| CARP (fish) genus | 1 answer |
| Carp | 64 answers |
| freshwater fish | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
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Sentences with CYPRINUS (5)
The gold-fish (Cyprinus auratus), judging from the analogy of the golden variety of the common carp, is perhaps a case in point, as it may owe its splendid colours to a single abrupt variation, due to the conditions to which this fish has been subjected under confinement.
Gold-fish (_Cyprinus auratus_) were introduced into Europe only two or three centuries ago; but they have been kept in confinement from an ancient period in China.
Certain genera, such as carp, perch, pike, and loach (_Cyprinus, Perca, Esox,_ and _Cobitis_), as also _Lebias,_ being peculiar to fresh-water.
There were rock mullet, too, with delicious flesh, flushed with the pinky tinge peculiar to the Cyprinus family; boxes of whiting with opaline reflections; and baskets of smelts—neat little baskets, pretty as those used for strawberries, and exhaling a strong scent of violets.
The species Cyprinus and Corregonus with their allies, including Salmo, are, as you know, especially difficult.