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giganticides

giganticides is the plural of giganticide.

Meaning of giganticide

Noun

giganticide (countable and uncountable, plural giganticides)

  1. The killing of a giant.
    • As they scarce make a capital crime of infanticide, / There can't be any harm in a little giganticide.1864, William Evans Burton, The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor
  2. One who kills a giant.
    • […] tore through the briers, and plunged through the punk of trees older than history, now rotting where they fell, slain by Time the Giganticide.1863, Theodore Winthrop, Life in the Open Air
    Synonyms:
    giant-killer

Questions about giganticides

What is giganticides the plural of?
Giganticides is the plural of giganticide.

Words near giganticides in the dictionary

  1. gigantic jet
  2. gigantic jets
  3. gigantical
  4. gigantically
  5. giganticide
  6. giganticides
  7. giganticism
  8. gigantick
  9. giganticness
  10. gigantification
  11. gigantified

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