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one eye, zero depth perception, and absolutely no time for your nonsense
means A one-eyed giant from Greek mythology — and, loosely, any one-eyed creature or anything sporting a single central eye.
from From Greek 'Kyklōps,' literally 'round-eye' — 'kyklos' (circle, the same root that rolls through 'cycle' and 'bicycle') plus 'ōps' (eye, a cousin of 'optic'). The Cyclopes were the hulking one-eyed sons of myth, most famously Polyphemus, who trapped Odysseus in his cave until the hero blinded that solitary eye. English usually keeps the classical plural 'Cyclopes' or the Anglicized 'Cyclops'; 'cyclop' is a clipped back-formation from these.
- name origin
- Greek for round-eyed or circle-eyed
- odyssey star
- Polyphemus got blinded by a sharpened stake
- real biology
- cyclopia is a rare single-eye birth defect
- smithy myth
- forged Zeus's thunderbolts as divine blacksmiths
- tiny crustacean
- Cyclops is a real one-eyed water flea genus
polyphemus — cyclops in homer's odyssey who trapped odysseus and his men in sicily
cyclops rex — x-men character with ability to shoot destructive beams from his eyes, created 1963