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Cyclops /Cy·clops/ (si´klops) a genus of minute crustaceans, species of which are hosts of Diphyllobothrium and Dracunculus. cyclops /cy·clops/ (si´klops) a fetus exhibiting cyclopia. cyclops. See cyclopia. Cyclops a genus of minute crustaceans with terrestrial life cycles, some species of which act as hosts of Diphyllobothrium and Dracunculus spp. Called also water flea. cyclops a monster exhibiting cyclopia. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| no-man is my name" (131), recalling Odysseus's clever trick that allows him to outwit the Kyklopes, and Columbus dreams of a land where an oar would be misidentified as a winnowing fan (139), an allusion to the prophecy that Odysseus hears from Tiresias that he must eventually undertake a journey so distant from the sea that an oar would be thus misidentified. |
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