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dwarf::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | midget, nanus |
| Type of | small person |
| Has types | levi-lorrain dwarf, hypoplastic dwarf, normal dwarf, hypophysial dwarf, pituitary dwarf, primordial dwarf, true dwarf |
Examples of dwarf
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Dwarf sweet peas such as Bijou need no staking, so can be grown in an open area.
From the odt.co.nz
Dwarf crested iris at Nashville Natives in Fairview on Thursday, April 14, 2011.
From the tennessean.com
A dispute over dwarf planet Eris, led to Pluto's very public ouster as a planet.
From the latimes.com
Dwarf papyrus had similar total biomass as pickerelweed, but less shoot biomass.
From the sciencedaily.com
Can you suggest any plants or dwarf trees that would thrive in this environment?
From the washingtonpost.com
Dwarf mondo, an evergreen perennial, needs low to medium water once established.
From the chron.com
Our sun, for example, will swell into a red giant before becoming a white dwarf.
From the usatoday.com
Waiting on her is her servant, Recep, a dwarf and the doctor's illegitimate son.
From the kansas.com
As the heaviest black hole in a dwarf-sized galaxy, it was master of its domain.
From the newscientist.com
- A person who is markedly small
- Shadow: make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year"
- Check the growth of; "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"
- Gnome: a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
- A plant or animal that is atypically small
- DWARF is a widely used, standardized debugging data format. DWARF was originally designed along with Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), although it is independent of object file formats. ...
- Fairies, in the fictional series Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, are beings, usually shorter than a human, who possess magic properties. The average height of a fairy is exactly 1 metre, one centimetre. All the fairies have retreated below the Earth to escape the destructiveness of the human race. ...
- A dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), is a celestial body orbiting a star that is massive enough to be spherical as a result of its own gravity but has not cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite. ...
- Dwarfs in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are similar to the Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, to which they largely started out as a homage, and dwarves in other fantasy novels. They are short, stocky, bearded metal-workers, generally seen wearing chain mail and brandishing axes. ...
