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any creature of exceptional size colossus: a person of exceptional importance and reputation an unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a retail giant" a very large person; impressive in size or qualities someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales giant star: a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) elephantine: of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"
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| giantism |
excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland gigantism: excessive largeness of stature
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| giant cell epulis |
epulis gigantocellula
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In the Hebrew Bible and several non-canonical Jewish and early Christian writings, nephilim (in Hebrew הנּפלים means The Fallen [ones]) are a people created by the cross-breeding of the "sons of God" (beney ha'elohim, בני האלהים) and the "daughters of men". (See Genesis 6:1.) The word nephilim is loosely translated as giants or titans in some Bibles, and is left untranslated in others. ...
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| giantism |
Gigantism (from Greek gigas, gigantos "giant") is a condition characterized by excessive height growth. Gigantism (or giantism) is not a currently used medical term and there is no precise definition of the degree of tallness which qualifies a person to be termed a "giant." The term has been typically applied to those whose height is not just in the upper 1% of the population but several standard deviations above mean for persons of the same sex, age, and ethnic ancestry. ...
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