Classical Mythology. a member of a family of giants having a single round eye in the middle of the forehead.
(lowercase) a freshwater copepod of the genus Cyclops, having a median eye in the front of the head.
< Greek Kýklōps, literally, round-eye, equivalent to kýkl ( os ) a circle, round + ṓps eye
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“For some, a war becomes home,” he says at one point, his line readings so pungent you’ll barely miss the excitement of a Cyclops or a Calypso.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2024
Cyclops blasts powerful energy beams from his eyes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024
Using cameras placed in the Cyclops Mountains in Indonesia’s West Papua province, the researchers captured it on video for the first time, proving it had not gone extinct.
From Washington Times • Nov. 10, 2023
These could help answer many questions about how and when the Cyclops Mountains originally formed.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
Once she’d saved them from the mansion of the evil Cyclops when she was only seven.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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