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cyclopes
 
Noun cyclops has 2 senses
  1. Cyclops - (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead
    --1 is a kind of     mammal genus; giant; mammal genus; giant
    --1 is a member of
     Myrmecophagidae, family Myrmecophagidae; 1 of 2 senses of cyclops ; Cyclopes, genus Cyclopes; Myrmecophagidae, family Myrmecophagidae; 1 of 2 senses of cyclops
    --1 has members: silky anteater, two-toed anteater, Cyclopes didactylus
  2. cyclops, water flea - 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
    --2 is a kind of copepod, copepod crustacean; copepod, copepod crustacean
    --2 is a member of genus Cyclops; cyclops, water flea; genus Cyclops
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