Usually means: Indigenous people of short stature.
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  1. pygmies: Merriam-Webster
  2. Pygmies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pygmies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Pygmies, pygmies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pygmies, pygmies: Wordnik
  6. pygmies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pygmies: Wiktionary
  8. Pygmies: Dictionary.com
  9. pygmies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Pygmies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Pygmies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Pygmies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pygmies: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Pygmies: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Pygmies: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pygmies: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pygmies: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Pygmies: Medical dictionary

(Note: See pygmy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pygmy)

noun:  (often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A member of a race of dwarfs.
noun:  (figuratively, derogatory, offensive) Any dwarfish person or thing.
noun:  (figuratively, derogatory, offensive) An insignificant person, at least in some respect.
adjective:  Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people.
adjective:  Like a pygmy; unusually short or small for its kind.
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