cyclopes
Meaning of cyclopes
plural noun
- a member of a race of savage one-eyed giants. In the Odyssey, Odysseus escaped death by blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus.
- a minute predatory freshwater crustacean which has a cylindrical body with a single central eye.
via Latin from Greek Kuklōps, literally ‘round-eyed’, from kuklos ‘circle’ + ōps ‘eye’.
Information about cyclopes
- It is a name.
- The singular form of cyclopes is: cyclope.
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Hyphenation of cyclopes
cy-clopes
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- cyclopes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
cyclopes synonyms
Meaning Cyclopes:
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