Definition of Gigas

1. pertaining to variations in plant development [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gigas

gigantocellular nucleus of medulla oblongata
gigantologies
gigantology
gigantomachy
gigantomastia
gigantoraptor
gigantoraptors
gigaohm
gigaohms
gigaparsec
gigaparsecs
gigapascal
gigapascals
gigapixel
gigapixels
gigas (current term)
gigasecond
gigaseconds
gigaton
gigatonne
gigatonnes
gigatons
gigatrend
gigatrends
gigavolt
gigavolts
gigawatt
gigawatts
gigayear
gigayears

Literary usage of Gigas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"In a total of about forty plants from the FI of 0. lata X 0. gigas Miss Lutz found ... six plants which were very similar to 0. gigas, having about thirty ..."

2. Bulletin by University of the State of New York (1903)
"... Isotel us gigas De Kay. Annals of the New York lyceum of natural history. ... gigas (De Kay) Hall. Paleontology of New York. 1847. 1:231, pi. 61, fig. ..."

3. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1891)
"SIREX gigas IN IRELAND.—This insect is plentiful here this season. The larvas are found at the end of borings which penetrate the trunks, roots, ..."

4. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"... gigas lives in the pelvis of the kidney, more rarely in the abdominal cavity of the seal, otter, dog, wolf, fox, horse, marten and polecat, ..."

5. A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell (1841)
"... appears to be identical with the Serranus gigas of Cuvier and Valenciennes, above quoted, and the synonymes have been brought together accordingly. ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on Urinary and Renal Diseases: Including Urinary Deposits by William Roberts, Robert Maguire (1885)
"It originally belonged to Brookes's museum, and is entered in Brookes's catalogue as " an uncommonly fine specimen of an enormous worm (strongylus gigas) ..."

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