carp
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- noun
- /kɑrp/
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carpa
- The fisherman proudly displayed the large carp he caught earlier that day.
- carp and catfish
- carp, bass
- common carp
People played music, caught some carp and some Northern.
- People played music, caught some carp and some Northern.
- I finally got my Buffalo carp right here.
- And then he gets slapped in the face by an Asian carp.
- Caught me a little carp, a little bit of lake carp or sunfish or brim or sacalet speckled truck.
- And then I imagined a carp scientist there and I said to myself, what would this scientist say?
Examples
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At the market, I bought a fresh carp to grill for dinner.
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The huge white carp lay in the net's folds on the bank.
Fiction book (2002) -
And even if he had caught a carp that size, why would he let it go?
Fiction book (1996) -
Our lake had never had carp in it, and no one had heard of any being caught there.
Fiction book (1996) -
Have you ever seen carp on a menu in your life?
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A really good cook can do wonders with carp, and they do help to keep the water clean.
Fiction book (1993) -
Bill thought of the carp swimming sadly around in the pond out in the garden.
Fiction book (1998) -
My mother had been making carp fillets and carp roe soup for as long as I could remember.
Fiction book (1996) -
Fabulous Moorish gardens: ponds filled with golden carp; exotic bird cages hang from lemon trees.
Fiction book (1992) -
Among tree roots, beneath fallen branches, and under the riverbank lurk catfish, carp, and small crabs.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
A large freshwater fish often kept for food or sport fishing
A large freshwater fish kept for food or as decoration, like koi
Compounds
A small European freshwater fish like a goldfish that can live in water with little oxygen
- Specialized
A type of carp with few large shiny scales that people keep in ponds for food or decoration
- Specialized
A fish from another place that spreads quickly and harms local plants and animals
How Edible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Carp is the name of a freshwater fish taken from an old European word used in Latin and French for this kind of fish, and that is why we still call the pond and food fish 'carp' today.