(historical) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).

The largest kiwi, Apteryx haastii.

Strix nebulosa, a very large owl.

(idiomatic) To make a major effort; to be very careful when doing something, especially to an extreme or excessive degree.

plural of great circle route

plural of great spotted kiwi

plural of great northern prawn

A species of shrimp found in cold parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Pandalus borealis.

(astronomy, obsolete) The Andromeda Galaxy, a term that was used before it was known to be a spiral galaxy.

(mythology, astronomy) The Milky Way, the night sky visual phenomenon caused by dense regions of the Milky Way Galaxy appearing nebulous. (Used especially in Native American contexts.)