Cyprine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cyprine is an adjective meaning (botany) Of or pertaining to the cypress.
Meaning
(botany) Of or pertaining to the cypress.
More Meanings
- A variety of tourmaline that contains copper, which gives it a unique blue color, also called cuprian elbaite.
- (zoology) Of or pertaining to the carp.
- A fish from the taxonomic family Cyprinidae.
- Vaginal secretions that result from sexual arousal.
Example Sentences
Cyprine oil was made from the tree called cyprus in Egypt, according to Pliny.
The shape of the "cyprine" optical spectrum is typical of minerals containing Cu²⁺ ions (Platonov, 1976).
A bright blue variety of idocrase is known as cyprine and is so-called after Cyprus, which was the ancient source copper.
Older women who no longer menstruate, excited by the younger women's caresses, secrete enough cyprine to paint their bodies.
Word Forms
- cyprines
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cypressed, calycine, cedrine, cynaroid, cyrtoceraconic, cedry.
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