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cyclopess

cyclopess noun: a female cyclops.

Noun

cyclopess (plural cyclopesses)

  1. A female cyclops.
    • After winding a handkerchief around the turnkeys and changing the key two or three times, posting me behind the chair to hold Mrs. Cyclop's disordered caput, he introduced the drawers, making sure that he was outside the cavern .. On looking around I saw the Doctor picking himself up from an...1866, Lenderman, Lenderman's Thousand Characters and Ten Thousand Practical Facts from Common Life, page 213-214/480
    • a voice that seemed to come from the large curly-haired head of the black Cyclops or Cyclopess on which his own hairless head was resting .. The immense liquid eye of the black Cyclopess drawing him into its depths.2002, Julián Ríos, Monstruary, pages 8/27

Forms of cyclopess

pluralcyclopesses

Origin of cyclopess

From cyclops + -ess.

Questions about cyclopess

What does cyclopess mean?
Cyclopess means a female cyclops.
What part of speech is cyclopess?
Cyclopess is a noun.
What is the plural of cyclopess?
The plural of cyclopess is cyclopesses.

Words near cyclopess in the dictionary

  1. cyclopeptides
  2. cyclopeptidic
  3. cyclopeptolide
  4. cyclopeptolides
  5. cyclopes
  6. cyclopess
  7. cyclopesses
  8. cyclophane
  9. cyclophanes
  10. cyclophellitol
  11. cyclophenanthrenylene

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