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

• water flea

1. (noun) (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead

• giant

2. (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

• copepod
• copepod crustacean

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

• genus cyclops

1. (noun) (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead

• greek mythology

1. (noun) (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead

• cyclopean