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English noun: Cyclops | |||
| 1. | Cyclops (person) (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | giant | ||
| Domain category | Greek mythology | ||
| 2. | cyclops (animal) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | water flea | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | copepod, copepod crustacean | ||
| Member meronym | genus Cyclops | ||
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