Definition of cyclops Cyclops
/sajˈklɔˌps/ - [sayklops] - Cy•clops
We found 10 definitions of cyclops from 6 different sources.
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What does cyclops mean?
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NounPlural: cyclops |
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| cyclops - (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead | ||
| giant any creature of exceptional size | ||
| greek mythology the mythology of the ancient Greeks | ||
| cyclops - 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- cyclops (n. sing. & pl.)
One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna. - cyclops (n. sing. & pl.)
A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda. - cyclops (n. sing. & pl.)
A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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cyclops
sī′klops, n. one of a fabled race of giants who lived chiefly in Sicily, with one eye in the middle of the forehead: a genus of minute freshwater copepods with an eye in front:—pl. Cyclō′pes.—adjs. Cyclopē′an, Cyclop′ic, relating to or like the Cyclops: giant-like: vast: pertaining to a prehistoric style of masonry with immense stones of irregular form. [Gr. kyklōps—kyklos, a circle, and ōps, an eye.]
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A Kyklops, or Cyclops is a kind of giant in Greek mythology, which has only one eye on its forehead. They originally were children of Gaia and Uranos, and were called Brontes, Steropes, and Arges.
The most known is probably the cyclops Polyphemos in Homer's "Odyssey".
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