pygmy

noun

/ˈpɪɡmi/

(also pigmy)

(plural pygmies, pigmies)

Pygmy
a member of a race of very short people living in parts of Africa and south-east Asia俾格米人（生活于非洲和东南亚部分地区，身材矮小）
(disapproving) a very small person or thing or one that is weak in some way矮小的人（或物）；侏儒；弱小者
- He regarded them as intellectual pygmies.他把他们视为智力上的侏儒。

词源late Middle English (originally in the plural, denoting a mythological race of small people): via Latin from Greek pugmaios ‘dwarf’, from pugmē ‘the length measured from elbow to knuckles’.

pygmy

adjective

/ˈpɪɡmi/

(also pigmy)

[only before noun]

used to describe a plant or species (= type) of animal that is much smaller than other similar kinds（比同类动植物）小得多的，矮小的，微小的
- a pygmy shrew倭鼩鼱
词源late Middle English (originally in the plural, denoting a mythological race of small people): via Latin from Greek pugmaios ‘dwarf’, from pugmē ‘the length measured from elbow to knuckles’.

词汇	pygmy
释义	pygmy noun /ˈpɪɡmi/ /ˈpɪɡmi/ (also pigmy) (plural pygmies, pigmies) Pygmy a member of a race of very short people living in parts of Africa and south-east Asia俾格米人（生活于非洲和东南亚部分地区，身材矮小） (disapproving) a very small person or thing or one that is weak in some way矮小的人（或物）；侏儒；弱小者 He regarded them as intellectual pygmies.他把他们视为智力上的侏儒。词源late Middle English (originally in the plural, denoting a mythological race of small people): via Latin from Greek pugmaios ‘dwarf’, from pugmē ‘the length measured from elbow to knuckles’. pygmy adjective /ˈpɪɡmi/ /ˈpɪɡmi/ (also pigmy) [only before noun] used to describe a plant or species (= type) of animal that is much smaller than other similar kinds（比同类动植物）小得多的，矮小的，微小的 a pygmy shrew倭鼩鼱词源late Middle English (originally in the plural, denoting a mythological race of small people): via Latin from Greek pugmaios ‘dwarf’, from pugmē ‘the length measured from elbow to knuckles’.
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