cyprine

comparative more cyprine · superlative most cyprine

1. biologyOf 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

plural cyprines

1. countableuncountableA variety of tourmaline that contains copper, which gives it a unique blue color, also called cuprian elbaite.

   The shape of the "cyprine" optical spectrum is typical of minerals containing Cu²⁺ ions (Platonov, 1976).

   1992, Krystyna Dyrek, Alexej N. Platonov, Zbigniew Sojka, Witold Żabiński, “Optical absorption and EPR study of Cu²⁺ ions in vesuvianite ("cyprine") from Sauland, Telemark , Norway”, in European Journal of Mineralogy, volume 5, page 1285

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   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

comparative more cyprine · superlative most cyprine

1. biologyOf or pertaining to the carp.

plural cyprines

1. 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

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   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).

   2020, Hiroya Kawanabe, Machiko Nishino, Masayoshi Maehata, Lake Biwa: Interactions between Nature and People, page 46

plural cyprines

1. 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

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   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

   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.

   1987, John George Moss, Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature, page 96

   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.

   1992, Vance Randolph, Blow the Candle Out, page 663