GENUS CYCLOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cyclops mean? 

• GENUS CYCLOPS (noun)
  The noun GENUS CYCLOPS has 1 sense:

1. copepod water fleas

  Familiarity information: GENUS CYCLOPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CYCLOPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Copepod water fleas

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Nouns denoting animals

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)