minimus
Americannoun
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a creature or being that is the smallest or least significant.
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Anatomy. the little finger or toe.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of minimus
1580–90; < New Latin, Latin: literally, smallest
Example Sentences
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“I never even thought about the apartment. It was de minimus, in my mind,” Weisselberg said.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2024
“I don't think a country with a de minimus residual coal fleet is necessarily going to shame big coal consumers into radical change,” said Kevin Book, managing director of ClearView Energy Partners LLC.
From Scientific American • Jul. 1, 2021
About calves, hamstrings, Achilles, knees and weak glutes — they’re the three muscles in the buttocks: gluteus maximus, medius and minimus.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2019
However, “given the lack of priors, the de minimus nature of the contact and the apology letter,” the state dismissed the counts, Knight told the judge.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2019
The two living species, B. musculus and B. taylori, are seemingly derived from a common ancestor that in morphological structure was intermediate between B. minimus and B. musculus.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.
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