What does cyclopean mean?
Cyclopean means (mythology) Suggestive of a cyclops..
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/ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/ · adjective
(mythology) Suggestive of a cyclops..
Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim.
2006, Fernando Pessoa, "Salutation to Walt Whitman," in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, edited and translated by Richard Zenith, Penguin, pp. 198-9, You were cyclopean and muscular, not pretty, / Yet your attitude toward the world was feminine, / And for you each leaf of grass, each stone and each man was the Universe. See also quotation under cyclopian.
When he wrote the word, / the o's were joined / like eyeglass lenses without / a bridge. Cross-eyed, hypnotic, / they threatened to merge, / become Cyclopean. […]
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Cyclopean means (mythology) Suggestive of a cyclops..
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Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim.
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