CYCLOPS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • water flea (what does water flea mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) cyclops is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • copepod (what does copepod mean?)
   • copepod crustacean (what does copepod crustacean mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead
   Hypernyms(s) Cyclops is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • giant (what does giant mean?)