Meanings
nounblack carp (plural black carps or black carp)
plural black carps
- Mylopharyngodon piceus, a cyprinid fish native to East Asia, cultivated for food and traditional Chinese medicine.
The main fish species in freshwater ponds in China are silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, common carp, crucian carp, black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus), mud carp (Cirrhinus molitorella), etc. According to their live habitat, they can be divided relatively into pelagic and benthic fish.
2023 April 4, Shuang-Lin Dong, Xiang-Li Tian, Qin-Feng Gao, Yun-Wei Dong, Aquaculture Ecology, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 342
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 青魚 /青鱼
- 青魚 /青鱼 (qīngyú)Translations
Japanese 青魚
- 青魚 (ao-uo)Translations
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