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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 group of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead

Derived forms: Cyclopses, Cyclopes, cyclops

Type of: copepod, copepod crustacean, giant

Part of: genus Cyclops

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