Usually means: Very small or miniature version.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pygmy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pygmy: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pygmy, pygmy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Pygmy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pygmy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Pygmy, pygmy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pygmy, pygmy: Wordnik
  8. Pygmy, pygmy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pygmy: Wiktionary
  10. Pygmy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Pygmy (Pigmy): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Pygmy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pygmy: Dictionary.com
  14. pygmy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pygmy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pygmy (Greek mythology), Pygmy (UK goat breed), Pygmy (disambiguation), Pygmy (novel), Pygmy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pygmy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pygmy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. Pygmy: Rhymezone
  20. Pygmy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pygmy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Pygmy: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. pygmy: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pygmy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Pygmy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. pygmy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pygmy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pygmy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pygmy: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pygmy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pygmies as well.)

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noun:  (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A member of a race of dwarfs.
noun:  (figuratively, derogatory, offensive) Any dwarfish person or thing.
noun:  (figuratively, derogatory, offensive) An insignificant person, at least in some respect.
adjective:  Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people.
adjective:  Like a pygmy; unusually short or small for its kind.

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