One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
a genus of copepod with a single eye in the middle of the forehead (a tiny crab with claws); harmful to fry; avoid feeding to guppies.
Barbaric Giants that have only one eye. They are evil and have been known to eat the flesh of humans.
(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
a creature with one eye and a dromedary is a camel
a member of the Greco-mythical race of giants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead
Crustaceans in the genus Cyclops.
A Mexican agate, showing only a single eye, has received the name of cyclops. Included matter of a green colour, like fragments of "green earth," embedded in the chalcedony and disposed in filaments and other forms suggestive of vegetable growth, gives rise to moss agate.
(For the mythological creature, see: Cyclops)