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cyclostomes

cyclostomes is the plural of cyclostome.

Meaning of cyclostome

Noun

cyclostome (plural cyclostomes)

  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

Questions about cyclostomes

What is cyclostomes the plural of?
Cyclostomes is the plural of cyclostome.

Words near cyclostomes in the dictionary

  1. cyclostomates
  2. cyclostomatid
  3. cyclostomatids
  4. cyclostomatous
  5. cyclostome
  6. cyclostomes
  7. cyclostomous
  8. cyclostratigraphic
  9. cyclostratigraphically
  10. cyclostratigraphy
  11. cyclostrematid

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