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noun

1. A legendary humanlike being of great stature and strength
2. A living being of great size
3. A person of extraordinary powers
4. Something unusually large or powerful
5. A star of high luminosity and relatively great mass and size

   "a red giant"

6. a legendary humanlike being of great stature and strength
7. a living being of great size
8. a person of extraordinary powers

adjective

1. Having extremely large size, proportion, or power

noun

1. A large bushy-tailed anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) of Central and South America

noun

1. Giant kelp

   "We anchor between forests of giant bladder kelp, which close in tight around the boat …"

noun

1. Saguaro

noun

1. A very large clam (Tridacna gigas) found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific oceans that sometimes weighs more than 500 pounds (227 kilograms)

noun

1. Giant hogweed

noun

1. Huntsman spider

   "Have you ever encountered a very large, fast spider in your house in the middle of the night? You most likely ran into something called a giant crab spider, more commonly known as the huntsman spider."

noun

1. A tall perennial herb (Heracleum mantegazzianum) of the carrot family native to the Caucasus that has a hollow, usually purple-blotched stem which can reach a height of 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6.1 meters) and white-flowered umbels arranged in flat-topped clusters usually over 2.5 feet (0.8 meters) in diameter and that produces an irritating sap that causes severe rashes and blistering

   "She didn't realize she was planting poison. The plant was giant hogweed—a noxious, weed that looks like Queen Anne's lace and can give blistering, oozing rashes to anyone who touches its sap."

noun

1. European hornet

   "European hornets, also called giant hornets, can damage plants by stripping bark to build their paper nests."

2. Northern giant hornet

   "The giant hornet extends about 3.5 to 3.9 centimeters in length (1.4 to 1.5 inches), roughly the size of a human thumb, and it has a black tooth used for burrowing, according to an animal database at the University of Michigan. The queens are even bigger, with bodies that can grow longer than 5 centimeters (2 inches)."