"Giganto" meaning in English

See Giganto in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Giganto
  1. A giant monster, such as a hypothetical late descendant of Gigantopithecus.
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          "ref": "1995, Robert Michael Pyle, Where Bigfoot Walks, Crossing the Dark Divide, Houghton Mifflin Books and →ISBN, page 185",
          "text": "describe their search for fossils in Vietnam and their belief that Giganto (as they call it) cohabited with early man."
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          "ref": "2000, Lee Murphy and Mariana Malkoskie, Where Legends Roam, Defining Moments and →ISBN, page 160",
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