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What (who) is pygmy - definition

ETHNIC GROUP WHOSE AVERAGE HEIGHT IS UNUSUALLY SHORT

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Pygmy

·noun Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf.

II. Pygmy ·adj ·Alt. of Pygmean.

III. Pygmy ·noun One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.

IV. Pygmy ·add. ·noun One of a race of Central African Negritos found chiefly in the great forests of the equatorial belt. THey are the shortest of known races, the adults ranging from less than four to about five feet in stature. They are timid and shy, dwelling in the recesses of the forests, though often on good terms with neighboring Negroes.

pygmy

I. n.

Dwarf, hop o' my thumb.

II. a.

Dwarfish. See pygmean.

pygmy

(also pigmy)

¦ noun (plural pygmies)

1. (Pygmy) a member of certain peoples of very short stature in equatorial Africa or parts of SE Asia.

2. chiefly derogatory a very small person or thing.

3. a person who is deficient in a particular respect: an intellectual pygmy.

¦ adjective very small; dwarf.

Derivatives

pygmean adjective (archaic).

Origin

ME (orig. denoting a mythological race of small people): via L. from Gk pugmaios 'dwarf', from pugme 'the length measured from elbow to knuckles'.

Wikipedia

Pygmy peoples

In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a population) for populations in which adult men are on average less than 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) tall.

The term is primarily associated with the African Pygmies, the hunter-gatherers of the Congo Basin (comprising the Bambenga, Bambuti and Batwa).

The terms "Asiatic Pygmies" and "Oceanian pygmies" have been used to describe the Negrito populations of Southeast Asia and Australo-Melanesian peoples of short stature. The Taron people of Myanmar are an exceptional case of a "pygmy" population of East Asian phenotype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy peoples

Examples of use of pygmy

1. "We still know very little about pygmy elephants.

2. The Columbia Basin rabbits were mated with more genetically diverse Idaho pygmy rabbits and their offspring carry at least 75 percent of the Columbia pygmy bloodlines.

3. Pygmy elephants were long considered the same as Asian elephants.

4. Pygmy elephants love palm oil fruit and will often invade plantations.

5. The pygmy killer whale‘s small numbers stand in contrast to the humpback whale.