cyclops

Other forms: cyclopes; cyclopses

Definitions of cyclops

1. 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
   synonyms: water flea

   type of:

   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