Word Meanings - CYPRINODONT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.

FAMILY
A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
MINNOW
A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus lævis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the
INCLUDE
1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
INCLUDIBLE
Capable of being included.
SUBFAMILY
One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
SUPERFAMILY
A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.