Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ecology The condition of being stunted or dwarfed, as in certain climates.
- n. See dwarfism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Aberration from normal form by decrease in size; the character or quality of being dwarfed or pygmy; dwarfishness: opposed to gigantism.
Wiktionary
- n. biology, medicine Unusually small size, as a result of a developmental abnormality
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The condition of being abnormally small in stature; dwarfism; dwarfishness; -- opposed to
gigantism .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature
Etymologies
- French nanisme, from Latin nānus, dwarf, from Greek nānos; see nano-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Atrophy is partial and special in its operation, nanism is general.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Again, atrophy is to be separated from that general diminution in the size of the whole plant or of distinct parts of that plant which is comprised under the term "nanism.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“A characteristic phenomenon is nanism: in Sardinia there are some species that are smaller than those living outside the Island, such as the small horses on the Giara plateau, or Sardinian deer, smaller than their European "cousins".”
WN.com - Articles related to BP inks deal to save turtles from oil spill
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nanism’.
-
phrontistery - n
from phrontistery.info
nacarat, nacelle, nacket, nacre, nacreous, naevus, naiant, nail, nainsook, naissant, nanism, nanization and 340 more...
-
On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
-
C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nanism.
madmouth O, nanism! Jun 22, 2009