Definition of Dwarfer

1. dwarf [adj] - See also: dwarf

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwarfer

dwarf spheroidal
dwarf spheroidal galaxies
dwarf spheroidal galaxy
dwarf spurge
dwarf star
dwarf stars
dwarf sumac
dwarf tinamou
dwarf tinamous
dwarf tulip
dwarf willow
dwarfdom
dwarfed
dwarfed enamel
dwarfer (current term)
dwarfess
dwarfesses
dwarfest
dwarfing
dwarfish
dwarfishly
dwarfishnesses
dwarfisms
dwarflike
dwarfling
dwarflings
dwarfness

Literary usage of Dwarfer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... l>ut is : dwarfer, with a more scaly stem, and smaller reddish flowers. Between these- species some very showy hybrids have been raised in gardens. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Of dwarfer and stouter habit : Ivs. ovate or obovate, short-acuminate, glabrous, ... This variety is somewhat dwarfer than the common Hydrangea and is, ..."

3. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1872)
"The plant has the appearance of the former, but is dwarfer. ... Resembles in its general characters Alliance, but dwarfer than that variety, ..."

4. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1854)
"I should like, also, to see the flowers of increased substance, free from pockets, and of dwarfer habit. We look for great improvement in this latter point. ..."

5. Gardeners Chronicle, the Horticultural Trade Journal (1897)
"... or at the back if it have but one, dwarfer plants coming towards the front in each case ; but this should not be too strictly adhered to, ..."

6. And the Wilderness Blossomed by Frederick Stoever Dickson (1901)
"dwarfer, larger flowering plants are about one foot high. The dwarfer varieties are the favorites generally among growers, the range of color being large, ..."

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