cyclopses

Meanings

Noun

• (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead
• 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
• plural of cyclops

Synonyms

cyclops, Cyclops, water flea