Cyclops Synonyms

sīklŏps
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. water-flea

Cyclops Sentence Examples

  • In his translations of Euripides' Cyclops, 381, "a bowl I Three cubits wide and four in depth, as much i As would contain four amphorae" the Greek original clearly points to "ten amphorae" and four may have come from the previous line.

  • His rival the Cyclops Polyphemus surprised them together, and crushed him to pieces with a rock.

  • Euripides in the Cyclops essentially follows the Homeric account.

  • The story of the schooner was not rife with trouble, like the Cyclops.

  • The Cyclops is totally mindless and instinctive, the lowest depths of mental deficiency capable of post-natal existence.

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