Definition of Cyclops

Noun: cyclops (cyclops)  'sI,klóps

  1. 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
    - water flea
Noun: Cyclops (Cyclopes,Cyclops,Cyclopses)  'sI,klóps
  1. (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead

See also:
cyclopropanes
Cyclopteridae

Anagrams containing the word cyclops

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