cyprine

cyprine adjective: of or pertaining to the cypress.

Adjective (1)

cyprine (comparative more cyprine, superlative most cyprine)

Of or pertaining to the cypress.
- Cyprine oil was made from the tree called cyprus in Egypt, according to Pliny.1756, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, A. Cornelius Celsus of Medicine: In Eight Books. Translated, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, by James Greive, M.D., page 108

cyprine (countable and uncountable, plural cyprines)

A variety of tourmaline that contains copper, which gives it a unique blue color, also called cuprian elbaite.
- 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.1935, Charles Palache, The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey, page 95
- A bright blue variety of idocrase is known as cyprine and is so-called after Cyprus, which was the ancient source copper.1949, The Gemmologist - Volume 18, page 104

cyprine (comparative more cyprine, superlative most cyprine)

cyprine (plural cyprines)

A fish from the taxonomic family Cyprinidae.
- 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.1966, Eugene Fodor, Yugoslavia, page 91
- 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...2020, Hiroya Kawanabe, Machiko Nishino, Masayoshi Maehata, Lake Biwa: Interactions between Nature and People, page 46

cyprine (plural cyprines)

Vaginal secretions that result from sexual arousal.
- Older women who no longer menstruate, excited by the younger women's caresses, secrete enough cyprine to paint their bodies.1977, Heresies - Volume 1, Issues 1-4, page 98
- No one is unaware that cyprine is different in taste depending upon the climate where it is produced and the diet of its producer.1979, Monique Wittig, Sande Zeig, Lesbian Peoples, page 37

From cypress + -ine.

From Latin cyprium (“copper”) + English -ine.

From Latin cyprīnus (“a species of carp”) + English -ine.

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