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CYCLOPS
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Irregular inflected form: cyclopes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
Synonyms:
cyclops; water flea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cyclops" is a kind of...):
copepod; copepod crustacean (minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish)
Holonyms ("cyclops" is a member of...):
genus Cyclops (copepod water fleas)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Greek mythology) one of a group of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cyclops" is a kind of...):
giant (an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales)
Domain category:
Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)
Derivation:
cyclopean (of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops)
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