cyprine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the cypress.
noun
A variety of tourmaline that contains copper, which gives it a unique blue color, also called cuprian elbaite.
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Of or pertaining to the carp.
noun
A fish from the taxonomic family Cyprinidae.
noun
Vaginal secretions that result from sexual arousal.
Example Sentences
- "Cyprine oil was made from the tree called cyprus in Egypt, according to Pliny."
- "The fibrous copper-bearing variety cyprine was first observed by the author in 1905 in a small dump of unknown origin at the mouth of the Parker shaft."
- "A bright blue variety of idocrase is known as cyprine and is so-called after Cyprus, which was the ancient source copper."
- "The shape of the "cyprine" optical spectrum is typical of minerals containing Cu²⁺ ions (Platonov, 1976)."
- "The mountain streams and upper reaches of the rivers are rich in trout, grayling and salmon, while the rivers of the plains abound in cyprine fish such as minnows, carp, huck, etc."
- "It contains xenocypridines (Xenocypris), cultrines (Culter and Hemiculterella), cyprines (Cyprinus and Carassius), hypophthalmichthines (Hypophthalmichthys), leuciscines (Leuciscus, Mylopharyngodon, and Ctenopharyngodon), and gobionines (Gnathopogon) all of which were extant genera (Liu and Su 1962)."
Etymology
From cypress + -ine.