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Definition of True dwarf

1. Noun. An achondroplastic dwarf whose small size is the result of a genetic defect; body parts and mental and sexual development are normal.

Lexicographical Neighbors of True Dwarf

Literary usage of True dwarf

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"It must not be understood that the Mahaleb stock gives a true dwarf ... For true dwarf trees, however, the only stocks that give promise are the dwarf ..."

2. Obstetrics: A Text-book for the Use of Students and Practitioners by John Whitridge Williams (1907)
"In the " true" dwarf there is a propor- tionate lack of general development, ... The bony changes are allied to those observed in the true dwarf, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the true dwarf, as far as I have been able to ascertain, ... Where disproportion occurs in the true dwarf it takes the form of a large-sized -head, ..."

4. Obstetrics: A Text-book for the Use of Students and Practitioners by John Whitridge Williams (1912)
"Unlike that of the true dwarf, it does not present infantile ... It differs materially from that of the true dwarf in that it is completely ossified. II. ..."

5. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1915)
"The first exact description of the skeleton of a true dwarf originates with A. Paltauf in the year ..."

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