cyclopes Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun only the silky anteater
    genus Cyclopes.
  2. noun (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead
    Cyclops.
  3. noun 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
    cyclops; water flea.

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