Definition of Pygmean

1. pygmy [adj] - See also: pygmy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pygmean

pyes
pyet
pyets
pygal
pygals
pygarg
pygargs
pygargus
pygidia
pygidial
pygidium
pygidiums
pygmaean
pygmalion
pygmalions
pygmean (current term)
pygmies
pygmoid
pygmy
pygmy chimpanzee
pygmy chimpanzees
pygmy cypress
pygmy giant panda
pygmy hippopotamus
pygmy marmoset
pygmy mouse
pygmyish
pygmyism

Literary usage of Pygmean

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

1. Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology by Hyde Clarke (1875)
"The WOLOF has great affinities with the pygmean. The people call themselves black. On the other side the Wolof appears to be in transition to Carib-Dahomey ..."

2. Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology by Hyde Clarke (1875)
"The WOLOF has great affinities with the pygmean. The people call themselves black. On the other side the Wolof appears to be in transition to Carib-Dahomey ..."

3. The Paradise Lost by John Milton (1851)
"Throng numberless, like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount; ... pygmean, $c.: A fabulous nation of dwarfs that contended annually with cranes. ..."

4. The Paradise Lost by John Milton (1850)
"Throng numberless, like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount ... pygmean, tfc. : A fabulous nation of dwarfs that contended annually with cranes. ..."

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