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n. - Only the silky anteater.

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Usage examples (33)
  • All the absolutely incoherent men -- all the 'Cyclopes' -- have been cleared away long before there was an authentic account of them.
  • A company of one-eyed monsters called Cyclopes were kept busy all the time, forging thunderbolts in the fire of burning mountains.
  • In the vast cavern the Cyclopes were forging iron,
  • Cyclopes and shudder at their cries and echoing feet.
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