dwarfish

Adjective

(comparative more dwarfish, superlative most dwarfish)

Like a dwarf; being especially small.
Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.
dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available

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Xylosteum, a hardy shrub of dwarfish, erect habit, and L.
Splendid dwarfish bulbs, thriving in deep, sandy, wellenriched garden soil, and increased by offsets.
In 1814 Sir Walter Scott met a dwarfish traveller in the Orkneys, whom the natives regarded as a " Pecht " or Pict.
It is believed that there are traces of an aboriginal people (the Vazimba), who occupied portions of the interior before the advent of the present inhabitants, and these appear to have been a somewhat dwarfish race, and lighter-coloured than the Malagasy generally.
The true jungle veddahs are almost a dwarfish race.

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