Peasant's Revolt
Great Revolt | a widespread rebellion in against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed the poorer people of England, suppressed by Richard II |
| great care | more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons, the pilot exercised great care in landing |
World War I
World War
Great War
First World War
War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
great white shark
white shark
man-eater
man-eating shark
Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |
blue shark
great blue shark
Prionace glauca | slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark, blue body shades to white belly, dangerous especially during maritime disasters |
| eastern kingbird | a kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America, distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail |
eastern meadowlark
Sturnella magna | a meadowlark of eastern North America |
great bowerbird
Chlamydera nuchalis | large bowerbird of northern Australia |
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus | brown North American horned owl |
great grey owl
great gray owl
Strix nebulosa | large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia |
eastern red-backed salamander
Plethodon cinereus | common salamander of eastern North America |
eastern cricket frog
Acris gryllus | a cricket frog of eastern United States |
eastern narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne carolinensis | small toad of southeastern United States |
eastern fence lizard
pine lizard
Sceloporus undulatus | small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia |
eastern ground snake
Potamophis striatula
Haldea striatula | in some classifications placed in genus Haldea, small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America |
eastern indigo snake
Drymarchon corais couperi | a variety of indigo snake |
eastern coral snake
Micrurus fulvius | ranges from Central America to southeastern United States |
giant kangaroo
great grey kangaroo
Macropus giganteus | very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas |
eastern dasyure
Dasyurus quoll | a variety of dasyure |
great blue heron
Ardea herodius | large American heron having bluish-grey plumage |
| great white heron Ardea occidentalis | large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys |
| great white heron Casmerodius albus | widely distributed Old World white egret |
American egret
great white heron Egretta albus | a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America, it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus |
great bustard
Otis tarda | largest European land bird |
great snipe
woodcock snipe Gallinago media | Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe |
black-backed gull
great black-backed gull
cob Larus marinus | white gull having a black back and wings |
great skua
Catharacta skua | large brown skua of the northern Atlantic |
great auk
Pinguinus impennis | large flightless auk of rocky islands off northern Atlantic coasts, extinct |
great crested grebe
Podiceps cristatus | large Old World grebe with black ear tufts |
| Great Dane | very large powerful smoothoated breed of dog |
| Great Pyrenees | bred of large heavyoated white dogs resembling the Newfoundland |
eastern pipistrel
Pipistrellus subflavus | one of the smallest bats of eastern North America |
eastern cottontail
Sylvilagus floridanus | widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions |
eastern woodrat
Neotoma floridana | large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States |
eastern grey squirrel
eastern gray squirrel
cat squirrel Sciurus carolinensis | common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America, now introduced into England |
fox squirrel
eastern fox squirrel
Sciurus niger | exceptionally large arboreal squirrel of eastern United States |
eastern chipmunk
hackee
striped squirrel
ground squirrel Tamias striatus | small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches |
ant bear giant anteater
great anteater
tamanoir
Myrmecophaga jubata | large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws, of South America |
great ape
pongid | any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae |
eastern lowland gorilla
Gorilla gorilla grauri | a kind of gorilla |
eastern chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii | long-haired chimpanzees of eastentral Africa, closely related to the central chimpanzees |
great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda | large (up to ft) greyish-brown barracuda highly regarded as a food and sport fish, may be dangerous to swimmers |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
| great hall | the principal hall in a castle or mansion, can be used for dining or entertainment |
| great seal | the principal seal of a government, symbolizing authority or sovereignty |
| Great Seal of the United States | the seal of the United States government |
Pyramid
Great Pyramid
Pyramids of Egypt | a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides, begun by Cheops around BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt |
musculus adductor magnus
great adductor muscle | the muscle that adducts and extends the thigh |
great cerebral vein
vena cerebri magna | a cerebral vein formed by the two internal cerebral veins and continuing into the sinus rectus |
long saphenous vein
great saphenous vein | the longest vein in the body, runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein |