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| big tree |
a very tall cone-bearing evergreen found in California; giant sequoia. |
| Brobdingnagian |
a huge person; giant. [1/3 definitions] |
| David |
according to the Old Testament, the second king of Israel, a shepherd as a youth who killed the giant Goliath, and reputedly the author of many of the Psalms. |
| Gargantua |
in the sixteenth-century French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, a giant king with prodigious appetites. |
| giant |
a giant star. [2/5 definitions] |
| giantess |
a female giant. [1/2 definitions] |
| giantism |
the state of being a giant. [1/2 definitions] |
| giant tortoise |
any of the species of large land turtles found in tropical regions, such as the Galapagos and Seychelles Islands. Giant tortoises can reach four feet in length and weigh 500 pounds. |
| gigantic |
exceptionally big; huge, as a giant. |
| Goliath |
according to the Old Testament, the giant warrior, sent forth by the Philistine army, who was slain by David with a slingshot. |
| Hood Island |
the seventh-largest island of the Galápagos Islands, celebrated for its population of giant tortoises. |
| ogre |
an ugly giant or monstrous person that eats people, esp. one in folk tales and children's stories. [1/2 definitions] |
| Orion |
in Greek mythology, a giant hunter who was killed by Artemis. [1/2 definitions] |
| panda |
a large bearlike mammal of China and Tibet that has woolly fur with dramatic black and white markings, including black rings around the eyes; giant panda. [1/2 definitions] |
| Pantagruel |
in the sixteenth-century French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, a giant, good-natured, drunken jokester. |
| Procrustes |
in Greek mythology, a giant who stretched his captives or cut off their legs to make them fit a bed he put them in. |
| thunderbird |
in the mythology of some North American Indians, a giant bird that causes lightning, thunder, and rain. |
| Titan |
in Greek mythology, any of a race of giant godlike beings descended from Uranus and Gaea, and eventually defeated and replaced by the Olympian gods. [1/3 definitions] |
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