- any fish belonging to the Cyprinidae, or minnow family.
- carplike in form or structure.
- any teleost fish of the mainly freshwater family Cyprinidae, typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales and including such food and game fishes as the carp, tench, roach, rudd, and dace
- of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyprinidae
- resembling a carp; cyprinoid