cyclostomate (sik los to mat)

[NL. cy clostomatus: see cyclostomatous.] Same as cy clostomous. Of the thirty-three cyclostomate forms, thirteen had previously been known in a fo il state. Science , IX. 350. cyclostomatous (si-klo-stom'a-tus), a. [ the polyzoan Cyclo stomata. (b) Pertaining to the round mouthed fishes, the lampreys and hags. The usual form in ichthyology is cyclostomous. cyclostome (sīklō-stom), a. and n. [ The cyclostome Fishes, po e ed of cerebral ganglia that are tolerably manifest, lead us to the ordinary fishes, in which these ganglia, individually much larger, form a cluster of ma es, or rudimentary brain. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 8. cyclostome II. n. 1. A fish of the order Cyclos tom i ; a marsipobranch; a monorhine; a lamprey or hag.-2. A gastropod of the family Cyclos to mid a .