Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Cyclopes; cyclopean.
- Obtained from a plant of the genus Cyclopia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to the
Cyclops ;cyclopean ;one-eyed .
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Examples
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A kid realizes that the three charismatic neighbors at his parents 'beach cottage -- who keep playing a strange board game -- are actually aliens hunting for a trinket that looks like a cyclopic pig.
Nick Antosca: An Interview with William Sleator, YA Novelist 2009
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A kid realizes that the three charismatic neighbors at his parents' beach cottage--who keep playing a strange board game--are actually aliens hunting for a trinket that looks like a cyclopic pig.
Archive 2009-10-01 N A 2009
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A kid realizes that the three charismatic neighbors at his parents' beach cottage--who keep playing a strange board game--are actually aliens hunting for a trinket that looks like a cyclopic pig.
INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM SLEATOR N A 2009
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Of course, their definition or, most irritating, the definitition in most portraiture books of what is the browline is so vague and their cyclopic fiddling with the thumb on the brush gives such imprecise measurements that you can fit just about anything to their preconceptions.
Pyle on Light and Shadow James Gurney 2009
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On that "mermaid" confection: how about half fluffy cotton cyclopic cyborg?
What About Spongebob? Jen 2009
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Deformities like that existing in Nos. 20 and 21 have been observed in paracephalic and cyclopic fetuses.
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Vallentini in 1884 reports a case of a male cyclopic infant which lived for seventy-three hours.
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Vallentini in 1884 6.165 reports a case of a male cyclopic infant which lived for seventy-three hours.
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Deformities like that existing in Nos. 20 and 21 have been observed in paracephalic and cyclopic fetuses.
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It has further, within the last few years, stolen into the deserts of the Hauran, through the old vigilant guard formed around that region by the Bedouin Arabs, and there -- (as if in startling contradiction to the dead and buried cities of Syria, etc.) -- it has -- as was equally predicted -- discovered the numerous cyclopic cities of
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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