Cyclops

['saɪklɑps]

Definition

(noun.) 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.

(noun.) (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead.

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Definition

(n. sing. & pl.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.

(n. sing. & pl.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.

(n. sing. & pl.) A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.

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Definition

n. one of a fabled race of giants who lived chiefly in Sicily with one eye in the middle of the forehead: a genus of minute freshwater copepods with an eye in front:—pl. Cyclō′pes.—adjs. Cyclopē′an Cyclop′ic relating to or like the Cyclops: giant-like: vast: pertaining to a prehistoric style of masonry with immense stones of irregular form.

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