Translation for 'colossus' from English to Russian

colossus [also fig.]

колосс {м} [также перен.]

• Houser's newest project is "The Puchteca", (pre-Columbian trader), a 250-foot colossus designed to straddle the US/Mexico border.
• In 1905, American mycologist William Murrill delineated the genus "Tomophagus" to accommodate the single species "G. colossus" (then known as "Polyporus colossus") which had distinctive morphological features that did not fit in with the other species.
• The colossus of Bahubali at the summit dominates the valley.
• It was the capital of the Ajila Dynasty and one of the most prominent Kings of then Thimmanna Ajila built a colossus of Gommateshwara 38 feet high in 1604 AD.
• The city is home to the headquarters of the furnitures colossus Friul Intagli Industries S.p.A.

• A fossil species, "Centropus colossus," is known from the Quaternary-aged Fossil Cave, Tantanoola, South Australia.
• In 2008, in the August edition of "PlayStation Magazine", Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida commented that both "Ico" and "Shadow of the Colossus" took 4 years to develop as a hint that the game was under production, but was not close to release.
• Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao, a very close friend of aluri and a literary colossus in Telugu Literature, edited it for 28 years, till his death in August 1980.
• It is also said that after the completion of this high colossus, initially devotees were unable to install it in the standing posture.
• The harbour-straddling Colossus was a figment of medieval imaginations based on the dedication text's mention of "over land and sea" twice and the writings of an Italian visitor who in 1395 noted that local tradition held that the right foot had stood where the church of St John of the Colossus was then located.

• "Notonomus colossus" is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae.
• high Colossus of Constantine, rebuilt as an anamorphosis (a kind of visual illusion).
• Plans envisage a mausoleum and a [...] high colossus of Hannibal on the Byrsa, the highest point of Carthage overlooking Tunis.