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Definition of Cyclops

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead.

2. 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.

Definition of Cyclops

1. 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.

Definition of Cyclops

1. Noun. (context: Greek mythology Roman mythology) A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology. ¹

2. Noun. A one-eyed creature of any species. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cyclops

1. a freshwater animal [n CYCLOPS] / any of a race of giants in Greek mythology with a single eye in the middle of the forehead [n CYCLOPES]

Medical Definition of Cyclops

1. An individual with cyclopia. Synonym: monoculus, monophthalmus, monops. Origin: see cyclopia (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclops

cyclopropannulated cyclopropannulation cyclopropanol cyclopropanols cyclopropaphane cyclopropaphanes cyclopropene cyclopropenes cyclopropenium cyclopropeniums

cyclopropenoid cyclopropenone cyclopropyl cyclopropylamine cyclopropyls cyclops (current term) cyclopses cycloptic cyclopyrrolone cyclopyrrolones

cyclopædia cyclopædiæ cyclorama cycloramas cycloramic cyclorelease cycloreversion cycloreversions cyclorrhaphous cyclos

Literary usage of Cyclops

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"cyclops. Ah me! my eye-sight is parched up to cinders. ... cyclops. It was that stranger rnin'd me :—the wretch First gave me wine and then burnt out my ..."

2. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"THE cyclops; A SATYRIC DRAMA. TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF EURIPIDES.i ... Notwithstanding these drawbacks, The cyclops ..."

3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1900)
"cyclops viridis Jurine, or, as it was formerly called, cyclops brevicornis Claus, the object of the classic researches of Haecker, is described as being ..."

4. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1921)
"IX THE STOKY TOLD TO ALCINOUS — THE cyclops THEN wise Odysseus answered him and said: "Mighty ... cyclops."

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