See pygmy on Wiktionary
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "Negrito"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
102,
107
]
],
"ref": "1999, Ashok V. Desai, The Price of Onions, page 73:",
"text": "Amongst foodgrains, as we travelled from the green South and East towards the dry North and West, the pygmy crop of rice gave way to the tall bajra and jowar.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Unusually short or small for its kind, especially in the names of animals and plants."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪɡmi/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pygmy.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/33/En-us-pygmy.ogg/En-us-pygmy.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/En-us-pygmy.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pygmean"
},
{
"word": "pygmyish"
},
{
"word": "dwarfish"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Homer"
],
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}
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