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Pygmy
[pig-mee]
noun
plural
PygmiesAnthropology.
a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa.
a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
Disparaging and Offensive.pygmy, a small or dwarfish person.
pygmy, anything very small of its kind.
pygmy, a person who is of small importance, or who has some quality, attribute, etc., in very small measure.
Classical Mythology.(in theIliad ) one of a race of dwarfs who fought battles with cranes, who preyed on them and destroyed their fields.
adjective
Often pygmy of or relating to the Pygmies.
pygmy, of very small size, capacity, power, etc.
pygmy
1/ ˈɪɡɪ, pɪɡˈmiːən /
noun
an abnormally undersized person
something that is a very small example of its type
a person of little importance or significance
(modifier) of very small stature or size
Pygmy
2/ ˈɪɡɪ /
noun
a member of one of the dwarf peoples of Equatorial Africa, noted for their hunting and forest culture
Pygmy
A member of any ethnic group in which the average height of the adult male is less than four feet, eleven inches. There are Pygmy tribes in dense rain-forest areas of central Africa, southern India, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The most widely studied Pygmies are the Mbuti of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, who pursue a nomadic hunting and gathering subsistence (see nomadism and hunting and gathering societies), but have established complex interdependent relationships with their non-Pygmy farming neighbors.
Other 51Թ Forms
- pygmoid adjective
- pygmyish adjective
- pygmyism noun
- pygmaean adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Pygmy1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Pygmy1
Example Sentences
Pygmy slow loris are a species of primate that comes from the rainforests and bamboo thickets of Vietnam, Laos, eastern Cambodia and southern China.
Pygmy hippos can be housed and supported at a much lower cost.
Pygmy hippos, otherwise known as dwarf hippos, are native to West Africa and experts believe there are only about 2,500 left in the wild worldwide.
Pygmy lorises were already listed as endangered, and the species split reveals a greater threat to each individual population.
Pygmy possums would be unlikely to share their box with the spiders; in 2019, a huntsman, which can be six inches from leg to leg, reportedly ate a pygmy possum in Tasmania.
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