Meaning

(botany) Of or pertaining to the cypress..

Definitions by Sense

1. (botany) Of or pertaining to the cypress.
2. A variety of tourmaline that contains copper, which gives it a unique blue color, also called cuprian elbaite.
3. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the carp.
4. A fish from the taxonomic family Cyprinidae.
5. 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).

Older women who no longer menstruate, excited by the younger women's caresses, secrete enough cyprine to paint their bodies.

No one is unaware that cyprine is different in taste depending upon the climate where it is produced and the diet of its producer.

Word Forms

• more cyprine
• most cyprine
• cyprines

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