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2. Noun. A person so resembling a Pygmy, such as the Negritos of Asia and peoples of the Congo Basin with mixed Pygmy–Bantu ancestry ¹

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Definition of Pygmoid

1. pygmy [adj] - See also: pygmy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pygmoid

Literary usage of Pygmoid

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

1. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"... it is only transitional from a vastly longer, lower, and possibly pygmoid level to a higher one yet to be securely and generally attained. ..."

2. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"... all because, long as is the period of history, it is only transitional from a vastly longer, lower, and possibly pygmoid level to a higher ..."

3. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"... it is only transitional from a vastly longer, lower, and possibly pygmoid level to a higher one yet to be securely and generally attained. ..."

4. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"... is made up by Batwa, a group of people of pygmoid hunter- gatherers descent. The Tutsi are usually elegantly dressed. Even before the arrival of the ..."

5. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"... is made up by Batwa, a group of people of pygmoid hunter- gatherers descent. The Tutsi are usually elegantly dressed. Even before the arrival of the ..."

6. Growth and Education by John Mason Tyler (1907)
"... and for a very protracted and relatively stationary period, the age of maturity in some remote, perhaps pygmoid, stage of human evolution. ..."

7. Growth and Education by John Mason Tyler (1907)
"... and relatively stationary period, the age of maturity in some remote, perhaps pygmoid, stage of human evolution." The arboreal life of our ..."

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