noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 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."

2. 2
   primitive aquatic vertebrate wordnet

Example

More examples

"Except the cyclostomes, as the lampreys and sphagobranchiæ, which are not real fishes, as I shall show elsewhere."

Etymology

From translingual Cyclostomata, confer French cyclostome.

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