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Definition of Dwarfing
1. dwarf [v] - See also: dwarf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwarfing
Literary usage of Dwarfing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"Some writers call this dwarfing "nanism;" others reserve that name for the rarer
form of dwarfing which is apparently due to some abnormality in the ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Dwarf fruit trees are propagated by the same methods employed in growing standard
trees with preference given to budding dwarfing stocks, whereas standard ..."
3. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The Wings of Pterodactyls are produced not by dwarfing or obliterating original
Typical Parts, but by the excessive Growth and Increase in Size of the Parts ..."
4. Gynecology by Brooke Melancthon Anspach (1921)
"Uterus bicornis, with dwarfing of one horn. A form of maldevelopment marked by
congenital dwarfing of the entire uterovaginal tract, affects most often the ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord by Francis Bacon (1824)
"... and artificial dwarfing of trees. 532. IT is certain, that timber trees in
coppice woods grow more upright, and more free from under- boughs, ..."
6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Stem dwarfing. — Alpine and lowland cultures. — Alpine steins corn- has been
killed, but one of the lateral ..."
7. Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"... and flower poetry—All sorts of gardens—The Mitsui and Okuma gardens—Hundreds
of years of tree-dwarfing— ..."
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