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CYCLOSTOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cyclostome mean?
• CYCLOSTOME (noun)
The noun CYCLOSTOME has 1 sense:
1. primitive aquatic vertebrate
Familiarity information: CYCLOSTOME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive aquatic vertebrate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("cyclostome" is a kind of...):
agnathan; jawless fish; jawless vertebrate (eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms)
Holonyms ("cyclostome" is a member of...):
Cyclostomata; order Cyclostomata (primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate: lampreys; hagfishes)
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