cyclops
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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 (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | copepod, copepod crustacean, |
| definition | : | minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus cyclops, |
| definition | : | copepod water fleas (noun.animal) |
2. (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | giant, |
| definition | : | an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales (noun.person) |
| domain category | : | greek mythology, |
| definition | : | the mythology of the ancient Greeks (noun.group) |
| derivation | : | cyclopean, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | cyclopean, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops (adj.pert) |
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