Tra từ pygmy - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She lost concentration, and the pygmy vanished.
▪ This section was a stunted pygmy of the city, but all hers to handle and manipulate.
II. adjective
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▪ Environmentalists feel saving the pygmy owl requires re-establishing flourishing desert riparian areas.
▪ In fact, Galvin sees protecting the pygmy owl and its habitat as a boon to the economy and wildlife alike.
▪ In the meantime, however, Amphi is still stuck with the pygmy owl problem.
▪ Some of the most satisfactory aquarium specimens are the pygmy angelfishes.
▪ Still, the press jumped on the pygmy owl angle, splashing headlines about the controversy across the top of both dailies.
▪ These vary in size from the great white pelican and goliath heron to the diminutive malachite and pygmy kingfishers.
▪ They coaxed everything from pygmy mice to snakes to cheetahs into running on a treadmill while wearing an oxygen mask.
▪ This could result in the plan being modified, so as not to adversely affect the pygmy owl.

pygmy

I. pyg‧my¹ , pigmy /ˈpɪɡmi/ noun (plural pygmies, pigmies) [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Latin; Origin : pygmaeus 'very small in height', from Greek, from pygme 'fist (as a unit of length)']
1. (also Pygmy) someone who belongs to a race of very small people, especially one of the tribes of central Africa

2. someone who is not as good, intelligent, strong etc as other people in the same group – used in order to show disapproval:
　 ▪ a literary pygmy

II. pygmy² adjective [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]
used to describe a type of animal or plant that is much smaller than other similar types:
　 ▪ a pygmy elephant