Great question! I have always assumed it was pertaining to anything in the Giant family as categorized by the NWN Toolset. If you click on the listing of monsters on the toolset, and find the giants category, there are more than just giants listed there, so I assume that the game recognizes the other cousins as giant-kin which tells me that the armor protects against them.
Please somebody post if I am wrong!
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