polyphemic

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English

Adjective

polyphemic (not comparable)

  1. having one eye like the cyclops Polyphemus
    • 1944, Curzio Malaparte, translated by Cesare Foligno, Kaputt:
      A sunflower, bending its head, peered at us with its round, polyphemic, impersonal eye, the long yellow lashes half-curled over the great black pupil.