Pigmy
Americannoun
plural
Pigmiesnoun
Example Sentences
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Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest.
From Time Magazine Archive
By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Pigmy scale the words for 1 and 6 are so closely akin that one cannot resist the impression that 6 was to them a new 1, and was thus named.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard
The Pigmy men wear a small strip of cloth, and the women wear a bunch of leaves for their clothes.
From People of Africa by How, Edith A.
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