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Definition of pigmy

Pigmy
Pigmy Pig"my, n. See Pygmy. Pigmy falcon. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Falconet, 2 (a) .
pigmy
Pygmy Pyg"my, n.; pl. Pygmies. [L. pygmaeus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the fist, a measure of length, the distance from the elbow to the knuckles, about 131 inches. Cf. Pugnacious, Fist.] [Written also pigmy.] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed. 2. Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf.

Meaning of pigmy from wikipedia

- In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic...
- The Pigmy Pouter is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Pigmy Pouters, along with other varieties of domesticated...
- Pigmy Deposit Scheme is a monetary deposit scheme introduced by Syndicate Bank, India in 1928. Initially, money as small as two anaas (an anna is a monetary...
- Grameena Bank. In March 2007, the Pigmy Deposit scheme was relaunched as Pigmy 2007. The older scheme was also continued as Pigmy 1928. By March 2015, the bank...
- Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named Pigmy: HMS Pigmy (1781), a 14-gun cutter captured by the French on 27 December 1781. Recaptured on 22 July...
- Society of London: 413–418. Oliver, W.L.R. (1980). The Pigmy Hog: the Biology and Conservation of the Pigmy Hog, Sus (Porcula) salvanius, and the Hispid Hare...
- Pigmy Love Circus is a Los Angeles rock band that has existed since the mid-1980s era of the Hollywood underground rock scene. Pigmy Love Circus originally...
- perform as a studio drummer with Carole King and perform live sets with Pigmy Love Circus. He also pla**** in Green Jellö as "Danny Longlegs" and recorded...
- Pigmy Rock is a rock lying close off the southwest side of Alamode Island at the south extremity of the Terra Firma Islands, off the west coast of Graham...
- Idiosepiidae, also known as the pygmy squids, is a family of squids in the superorder Decapodiformes. They are the smallest known squids. It is the only...