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Cy⋅clops

  [sahy-klops]
–noun, plural Cy⋅clo⋅pes  [sahy-kloh-peez] .
1. Classical Mythology. a member of a family of giants having a single round eye in the middle of the forehead.
2. (lowercase) a freshwater copepod of the genus Cyclops, having a median eye in the front of the head.
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< Gk Kýklōps, lit., round-eye, equiv. to kýkl(os) a circle, round + ps eye
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An⋅tig⋅o⋅nus I

  [an-tig-uh-nuhs]
–noun
(Cyclops) 382?–301 b.c., Macedonian general under Alexander the Great.
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Cy·clops   (sī'klŏps)   
n.   pl. Cy·clo·pes (sī-klō'pēz) Greek Mythology

  1. Any of the three one-eyed Titans who forged thunderbolts for Zeus.

  2. Any of a race of one-eyed giants, reputedly descended from these Titans, inhabiting the island of Sicily.


[Latin, from Greek Kuklōps : kuklos, circle; see cycle + ōps, eye; see myopia.]
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Cultural Dictionary

Cyclops [(seye-klops)]

plur. Cyclopes

One-eyed giants in classical mythology. One Cyclops imprisoned Odysseus and his men during their voyage back to Greece after the Trojan War. Odysseus managed to trick the Cyclops and put out his eye. Odysseus and his men were then able to escape.

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Word Origin & History

cyclops 
(pl. cyclopes), 1513, from L., from Gk. kyklops, lit. "round-eyed." One of a race of one-eyed giants who forged thunderbolts for Zeus, built the walls of Mycenae, etc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: cy·clops
Pronunciation: 'sI-"kläps
Function: noun
1 plural cy·clo·pes /sI-'klO-(")pEz/ : an individual or fetus abnormal in having a single eye or the usual two orbits fused
2 capitalized : a genus of minute free-swimming copepods that have a largemedian eye, a pear-shaped body tapering posteriorly, and long antennules used in swimming, that are widely distributed and abundant in fresh waters, that are important elements in certain aquatic foodchains, and that directly affect humans as intermediate hosts of certain parasitic worms —see GUINEA WORM
3 plural cyclops : a copepod water flea of the genus Cyclops
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