Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cyclops

2 senses of cyclops

Sense 1
Cyclops -- ((Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead)
       => giant -- (an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales)

Sense 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)
       => copepod, copepod crustacean -- (minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish)