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CYCLOPS (cyclopes)

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Irregular inflected form: cyclopes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cyclops mean? 

CYCLOPS (noun)
  The noun CYCLOPS has 2 senses:

1. (Greek mythology) one of a group of giants having a single eye in the middle of their foreheadplay

2. 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 wormsplay

  Familiarity information: CYCLOPS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CYCLOPS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)


Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cyclops; water flea

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)


 Context examples 


"That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he?" said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Oh, my goodness! That little goose means a centaur, and she called him a Cyclops," exclaimed Jo, with a burst of laughter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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