pygmy pig

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• Pig|my — «PIHG mee», noun, plural mies, adjective. = pygmy. (Cf. ↑pygmy) Pig|my «PIHG mee», noun, plural mies, adjective. = Pygmy. (Cf. ↑Pygmy) …   Useful english dictionary

• pig|my — «PIHG mee», noun, plural mies, adjective. = pygmy. (Cf. ↑pygmy) Pig|my «PIHG mee», noun, plural mies, adjective. = Pygmy. (Cf. ↑Pygmy) …   Useful english dictionary

• Pygmy — [pig′mē] n. pl. Pygmies [ME pigmey < L pygmaeus < Gr pygmaios, of the length of the pygmē, forearm and fist, also fist: see PUGNACIOUS] 1. any of several groups of small African or Asian peoples described in ancient history and legend 2. a… …   English World dictionary

• Pygmy hippopotamus — A pygmy hippopotamus at National Zoo. Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• Pygmy Hog — Taxobox name = Pygmy Hog status = CR status system = iucn3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Artiodactyla familia = Suidae genus = Porcula genus authority = Hodgson, 1847 species = P. salvania binomial = Porcula… …   Wikipedia

• Pig — Taxobox name = Pig image width = 250px image caption = A sow and her piglet. regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia subclassis = Theria infraclassis = Eutheria ordo = Artiodactyla familia = Suidae subfamilia = Suinae genus = Sus… …   Wikipedia

• Pygmy Hippopotamus — Taxobox name = Pygmy Hippopotamus status = EN | status system = IUCN3.1 status ref =IUCN2006|assessors=Lewison, R. Oliver, W. (Hippo Specialist Subgroup)|year=2005|id=10032|title=Hexaprotodon liberiensis|downloaded=17 December 2006] image caption …   Wikipedia

• Pygmy — pygmoid, adj. pygmyish, adj. pygmyism, n. /pig mee/, n., pl. Pygmies, adj. n. 1. Anthropol. a. a member of a small statured people native to equatorial Africa. b. a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands. 2. (l.c.)… …   Universalium

• pygmy — A physiologic dwarf with normal serum levels of growth hormone and somatomedin and refractoriness to exogenous hormone; especially one of a race of similar people, such as the pygmies of central Africa. SYN: pigmy. [G. pygmaios, dwarfish, fr.… …   Medical dictionary

• pig·my — variant spelling of ↑pygmy ↑pygmy …   Useful english dictionary

• pygmy hog — noun : a very small wild pig (Sus salvanius) of the forests of Nepal …   Useful english dictionary