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pigmy

[pig-mee] / ˈpɪg mi /


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Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Daintiest feeder is the pigmy marmoset, which, for meat, eats only the smallest young lizards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like some pigmy umpire nervously staging a handshake between quarrelsome giants, small Norway last week brought Imperial Britain and Communist Russia into their first diplomatic contact in more than two years.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is fighting against an unholy division of the old and venerable European continent into dozens of pigmy States.

From Time Magazine Archive

In captivity specimens have eaten frogs, mice, birds, dead fish, pigmy rattlers and copperheads.

From Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) by Ray D. Burkett




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