1. Pertaining to carp fish.
2. Belonging to the carp family, Cyprinidae, that includes carps, minnows, and barbs.

They are a very large family of omnivorous or herbivorous freshwater cypriniform teleost fishes with worldwide distribution except for Australia, New Zealand, and South America.

They have bodies that are typically moderately compressed with thin lips, adipose fins are absent with about 1600 species, many are important as food-fish and used widely in pisciculture.