pigmy
Example Sentences
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Their hope was that they could hew him down to their own pigmy size, but he died while still towering over them, loved by millions, and respected by multitudes .
From Time Magazine Archive
In the fall the team will practice on the 90 pigmy gridirons, giving them all the same rough treatment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Permission to kill or capture gorillas, pigmy hippopotamuses, white rhinoceroses, small-tusked elephants will be almost unobtainable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet on Madagascar, the extinction of giant lemurs and pigmy hippopotamuses did not occur until within the past 1,000 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sasia, sā′si-a, n. a genus of Indian pigmy woodpeckers.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
