Pigmy
Americannoun
noun
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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
Fourth prize Red or Yellow Pigmy Pouter, cock.
From New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission by Ellis, DeLancey M.
No less than forty races are now represented in the world-wide Bahá’í Community, which has been recently enriched through the enrollment of representatives of the Greek, the Berber, the Pigmy, the Somali and Guanche races.
From Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 by Shoghi Effendi
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