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nounminute 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
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noun(Greek mythology) one of a group of giants having a single eye in the middle of their foreheadtype of:
Definition that contains cyclops
- demetrius son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC)
- cyclopean of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops
- demetrius i son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC)
- demetrius poliorcetes son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC)