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Cyclops

[n] 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
[n] (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead


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water flea



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