cyclops
pronunciation
How to pronounce cyclops in British English:
UK [ˈsaɪklɒps]
How to pronounce cyclops in American English:
US [ ˈsaɪklɑːps]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- cyclops (n.)
- (plural cyclopes), 1510s, from Latin, from Greek kyklops, literally "round-eyed," from stem of kyklos (see cycle (n.)) + -ops (see eye (n.)). One of a race of one-eyed giants who forged thunderbolts for Zeus, built the walls of Mycenae, etc.
Example
- 1. Without a proper counterweight , the Cyclops might as well be a paperweight !
- 2. Then I went to see that cyclops , and he was finished in no time .
- 3. Results Infective rate of second stage larva of G. spinigerum was 1.6 % in cyclops .
- 4. Clearly , the application of brine or ammonia is feasible to control the growth of Cyclops .
- 5. The results indicate that chloramine is of notable inactivation effect on Cyclops .