- a variation of Pygmy.
Pigmy
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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
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
Sixth 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.
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
More within the Arabian bay than the Panchæans are the Pigmies, a minute race, which became exterminated in the wars which it was compelled to wage with the Cranes for the preservation of its fruits.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward
In his account of the Akkas, Mr. Stanley believed that he had discovered the representatives of the Pigmies mentioned in this history.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward
He looks like a colonel of the Pigmies horse, or one of these motions in a great antique clock; he would shew well upon a haberdasher's stall, at a corner shop, rarely.
From Every Man out of His Humour by Jonson, Ben
These other people are called the Pigmies, which means they are very small.
From People of Africa by How, Edith A.
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 Tyson, Edward
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