See cyprine on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1966, Eugene Fodor, Yugoslavia, page 91:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2020, Hiroya Kawanabe, Machiko Nishino, Masayoshi Maehata, Lake Biwa: Interactions between Nature and People, page 46:",
"text": "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).",
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"ref": "1977, Heresies - Volume 1, Issues 1-4, page 98:",
"text": "Older women who no longer menstruate, excited by the younger women's caresses, secrete enough cyprine to paint their bodies.",
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"ref": "1979, Monique Wittig, Sande Zeig, Lesbian Peoples, page 37:",
"text": "No one is unaware that cyprine is different in taste depending upon the climate where it is produced and the diet of its producer.",
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"ref": "1987, John George Moss, Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature, page 96:",
"text": "No phallus seeks a sheath in this \"mere hole,\" no Freudian or Lacanian child passes out through the root fibres and tangled grasses to become the symbolic phallus his deprived mother lacks. Instead, what is \"fretilizing,\" fecundating, what leaves its damp stain from Regen't Park down to Euston, is the cyprine juice of female sexual pleasure, cyprine juice signalling a pleasure that, in Lacan's terms, is \"beyond the phallus\" ( 145 ) and supplementary to the biology of reproduction.",
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"ref": "1992, Vance Randolph, Blow the Candle Out, page 663:",
"text": "In the last line, sweetest soup (in other versions: sweetest sauce); compare in No. 242, \"John Harloson's Saltpeter,\" on version note A, on the unusualness in English-language folksong or folklore of any appreciative reference, as here, to the female vaginal liquor, or cyprine.",
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