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GENUS CYCLOPS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Copepod water fleas
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cyclops" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cyclops"):
cyclops; water flea (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)
Holonyms ("genus Cyclops" is a member of...):
Copepoda; subclass Copepoda (minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans)
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