- a variation of Pygmy.
Pigmy
Americannoun
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Pigmies
plural
noun
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Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze.
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
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
Giant and Pigmy Successes Think of "successful" men you know.
From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins
The only losses on this station were the capture of two gun-brigs, after a very gallant defence, by a flotilla of very superior force, off Granville; and the Pigmy cutter, which was wrecked near Jersey.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Sir John Ross
They are certainly, on the average, a people of less than middle stature, yet they can in no sense be described as Pigmies.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
At every period the geographers of this nation have placed their River of Pigmies much more to the south.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
These other people are called the Pigmies, which means they are very small.
From People of Africa by Edith A. How
It seems difficult to me not to associate them with the Pigmies of Pomponius Mela.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
Pomponius Mela has also his account of African Pigmies.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
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