| giant | any creature of exceptional size |
giant moa
Dinornis giganteus | the largest moa, about feet high |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
pigfish giant pigfish
Achoerodus gouldii | found around the Great Barrier Reef |
| giant | an unusually large enterprise, Walton built a retail giant |
giant star
giant | a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) |
Jovian planet
gas giant | any of the four outermost planets in the solar system, much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter) |
red giant
red giant star | a large, old, luminous star, has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun |
| giant | an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength, appears in folklore and fairy tales |
colossus behemoth giant heavyweight
titan | a person of exceptional importance and reputation |
giant
goliath behemoth
monster colossus | someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful |
giant hulk
heavyweight whale | a very large person, impressive in size or qualities |
Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen Arnold Douglas
Little Giant | United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery, he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (-) |
lowland fir
lowland white fir
giant fir
grand fir
Abies grandis | lofty fir of the Pacific coast of northwestern America having long curving branches and deep green leaves |
giant sequoia
big tree
Sierra redwood
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Sequoia gigantea
Sequoia Wellingtonia | extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California, largest living organism |
giant buttercup
Laccopetalum giganteum | spectacular perennial native of wet montane grasslands of Peru, formerly included in genus Ranunculus |
giant taro
Alocasia macrorrhiza | large evergreen with extremely large erect or spreading leaves, cultivated widely in tropics for its edible rhizome and shoots, used in wet warm regions as a stately ornamental |
giant coreopsis
Coreopsis gigantea | large treelike shrub having feathery leaves and clusters of large yellow flower heads, coastal southern California |
giant sunflower
tall sunflower
Indian potato Helianthus giganteus | very tall American perennial of central and the eastern United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots |
stream orchid
chatterbox
giant helleborine
Epipactis gigantea | orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf |
giant reed
Arundo donax | large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles |
giant star grass
Cynodon plectostachyum | perennial grass having stems to feet high, used especially in Africa and India for pasture and hay |
giant ryegrass
Elymus condensatus
Leymus condensatus | stout perennial grass of western North America |
| giant foxtail | two species of coarse annual foxtails that are naturalized weeds in United States |
giant cane
cane reed
Arundinaria gigantea | tall grass of southern United States growing in thickets |
giant bamboo
kyohiku
Dendrocalamus giganteus | immense tropical southeast Asian bamboo with tough hollow culms that resemble tree trunks |
giant timber bamboo
madake
kuhiku
Phyllostachys bambusoides | large bamboo having thick-walled culms, native of China and perhaps Japan, widely grown elsewhere |
giant chinkapin
golden chinkapin
Chrysolepis chrysophylla
Castanea chrysophylla
Castanopsis chrysophylla | small ornamental evergreen tree of Pacific Coast whose glossy yellow-green leaves are yellow beneath, bears edible nuts |