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Cyclops

[ sahy-klops ]

noun

plural Cyclopes
  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.


Cyclops

1

/ 藞蝉补瑟办濒蓲辫蝉 /

noun

  1. classical myth one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of the forehead, encountered by Odysseus in the Odyssey See also Polyphemus
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cyclops

2

/ 藞蝉补瑟办濒蓲辫蝉 /

noun

  1. any copepod of the genus Cyclops, characterized by having one eye
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cyclops

  1. 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 (see also 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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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Cyclops1

< Greek 碍媒办濒艒辫蝉, literally, round-eye, equivalent to 办媒办濒 ( os ) a circle, round + 峁损蝉 eye
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Cyclops1

C15: from Latin 颁测肠濒艒辫蝉, from Greek 碍耻办濒艒辫蝉, literally: round eye, from kuklos circle + 艒辫蝉 eye
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鈥淔or some, a war becomes home,鈥 he says at one point, his line readings so pungent you鈥檒l barely miss the excitement of a Cyclops or a Calypso.

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Cyclops blasts powerful energy beams from his eyes.

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Alongside searching for the echidna, the expedition carried out the first comprehensive assessment of invertebrate, reptile, amphibian, and mammal life in the Cyclops Mountains.

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Using cameras placed in the Cyclops Mountains in Indonesia鈥檚 West Papua province, the researchers captured it on video for the first time, proving it had not gone extinct.

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Previous expeditions to the Cyclops Mountains had uncovered signs, such as 'nose pokes' in the ground, that the Attenborough echidna was still living there.

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