Not to get all pedantic here, or off the subject of what “criteria” means, and I don’t want to confuse things but, where did this sentence come from? I ask because I think it’s misleading, if not actually pretty much wrong; it’s really the kind of the other way around in terms of what defines a cyclone v.s. a hurricane; what the criteria are for defining a hurricane as opposed to some other type of cyclone .
A cyclone is the overarching term for a particular kind of storm; hurricane is the term used for a particular kind cyclone, for a particular kind of tropical cyclone, as a matter of fact ... the term hurricane “is used for Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones east of the International Dateline to the Greenwich Meridian.”
The above quote comes from the glossary provided by the National Hurricane Center
More than you wanted to know, I imagine, but if that sentence came from a text book or a published article, or from anywhere, really, it bothers me that it’s innacurate; at least according to my knowledge and understanding of cyclones and hurricanes.