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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.
The Cyclostomes, or suckers, with regard to their skeletons, are the most imperfect of all the Vertebrates,
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Cyclostome means Any of various primitive jawless fish of the class Cyclostomata, such as the lamprey or hagfish..
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Except the cyclostomes, as the lampreys and sphagobranchiæ, which are not real fishes, as I shall show elsewhere.
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