2. Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf.

Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps. And pyramids are

pyramids in vales.

Young.

||Py`go*bran"chi*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. pugh` the rump + &?; a

||gill.] (Zoˆl.) A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the

||branchiÊ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the

||genus Doris.

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