Cane
(n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. |
Cane
(n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds |
Cane
(n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes |
Cane
(n.) A walking stick |
Cane
(n.) A lance or dart made of cane. |
Cane
(n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna. |
Cane
(v. t.) To beat with a cane. |
Cane
(v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan |
Giant
(n.) A man of extraordinari bulk and stature. |
Giant
(n.) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual. |
Giant
(n.) Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power. |
Giant
(a.) Like a giant |
Plant-cane
(n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon. |
Reed
(a.) Red. |
Reed
(v. & n.) Same as Rede. |
Reed
(n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant |
Reed
(n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis). |
Reed
(n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant |
Reed
(n.) An arrow, as made of a reed. |
Reed
(n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof. |
Reed
(n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed |
Reed
(n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine |
Reed
(n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft |
Reed
(n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. |
Reed
(n.) Same as Reeding. |
Reed-mace
(n.) The cat-tail. |
Sea reed
() The sea-sand reed. See under Reed. |
Spanish
(a.) Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards. |
Spanish
(n.) The language of Spain. |
Wild
(superl.) Living in a state of nature |
Wild
(superl.) Growing or produced without culture |
Wild
(superl.) Desert |
Wild
(superl.) Savage |
Wild
(superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation |
Wild
(superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea |
Wild
(superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment |
Wild
(superl.) Hard to steer |
Wild
(n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region |
Wild
(adv.) Wildly |
Wild-cat
(a.) Unsound |
Wild-cat
(a.) Running without control |
| wild pitch | an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base |
| wild-goose chase | the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable |
Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | a spectacular show organized in by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale, toured the United States and Europe |
| Battle of the Spanish Armada | in the English Channel a small fleet of British ships successfully defeated the large armada sent from Spain by Philip II to invade England |
Spanish-American War
Spanish War | a war between the United States and Spain in |
| Spanish Civil War | civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government, during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries, - |
| War of the Spanish Succession | a general war in Europe (-) that broke out when Louis XIV installed his grandson on the throne of Spain, England and Holland hoped to limit Louis' power |
| giant | any creature of exceptional size |
giant moa
Dinornis giganteus | the largest moa, about feet high |
reed bunting
Emberiza schoeniclus | European bunting inhabiting marshy areas |
giant salamander
Megalobatrachus maximus | large (up to more than three feet) edible salamander of Asia |
Pacific giant salamander
Dicamptodon ensatus | large (to inches) salamander of western North America |
| giant tortoise | very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands |
Komodo dragon
Komodo lizard
dragon lizard
giant lizard
Varanus komodoensis | the largest lizard in the world ( feet), found on Indonesian islands |
| wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
giant kangaroo
great grey kangaroo
Macropus giganteus | very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas |
giant conch
Strombus gigas | a large variety of conch |
giant clam
Tridacna gigas | a large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to pounds |
sea scallop
giant scallop
Pecten magellanicus | a large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America |
giant northwest shipworm
Bankia setaceae | giant shipworm of the Pacific coast of North America |
architeuthis
giant squid | largest mollusk known about but never seen (tofeet long) |
giant crab
Macrocheira kaempferi | very large deep-water Japanese crab |
giant petrel
giant fulmar
Macronectes giganteus | large brownish petrel chiefly of Antarctic seas |
| giant schnauzer | a large schnauzer |
pointer
Spanish pointer | a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches, scents out and points to game |
| wild dog | any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves |
| Spanish fly | green beetle of southern Europe |
giant hornet
Vespa crabro | European hornet introduced into the United States |
| giant cockroach | large tropical American cockroaches |
| giant water bug | large water bug with piercing and sucking mouthparts, feeds on young fishes |
giant silkworm moth
silkworm moth | any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae |
silkworm giant silkworm
wild wilkworm | larva of a saturniid moth, spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon |
aperea
wild cavy
Cavia porcellus | South American cavy, possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig |
| wild horse | undomesticated or feral domestic horse |
| wild ass | any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa |
African wild ass
Equus asinus | a wild ass of Africa |
wild boar
boar Sus scrofa | Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come, introduced in United States |
ox
wild ox | any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos |
| Asian wild ox | genus of Asiatic wild oxen |
| wild sheep | undomesticated sheep |
| wild goat | undomesticated goat |
giant eland
Taurotragus derbianus | large dark striped eland of western equatorial Africa |
giant armadillo
tatou
tatu
Priodontes giganteus | about three feet long exclusive of tail |
ant bear giant anteater
great anteater
tamanoir
Myrmecophaga jubata | large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws, of South America |
giant panda
panda panda bear
coon bear
Ailuropoda melanoleuca | large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet, in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae |
barramundi
giant perch
giant seaperch
Asian seabass
white seabass
Lates calcarifer | a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities, lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats |
horse mackerel jack mackerel
Spanish mackerel saurel Trachurus symmetricus | a California food fish |
Spanish grunt
Haemulon macrostomum | a kind of grunt |
pigfish giant pigfish
Achoerodus gouldii | found around the Great Barrier Reef |
| Spanish mackerel Scomber colias | medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico |