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CYCLOPS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

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:

Nouns denoting animals

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:

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)

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