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cyclostome en · NOUN

Etymology

From translingual Cyclostomata, confer French cyclostome.

Meanings

1. Any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata, such as the lamprey or hagfish.
   • Except the cyclostomes, as the lampreys and sphagobranchiæ, which are not real fishes, as I shall show elsewhere. 1811, André Marie Constant Duméril, “On the Sense of Smell in Fishes”, in Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, volume 29, page 344:
   • The Cyclostomes, or suckers, with regard to their skeletons, are the most imperfect of all the Vertebrates, 1835, William Kirby, On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God, volume 2, William Pickering, page 390:

Forms

Deriveds

cyclostomous

Translations (8)

eo rondbuŝulo (any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata) · de Rundmäuler (any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata) · pl smoczkousty (any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata) · ro ciclostom (any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata) · pl kręgousty (any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata) · de Zyklostome (any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata) · fr cyclostome (any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata) · pl krągłousty (any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata)