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‖ pumilio, pumilo Obs. rare.
Also pomilio.
[L. pūmiliō, pūmilō a dwarf, f. pūmilis: see prec. Cf. obs. It. pomilione ‘a Dwarfe or Pigmey’ (Florio 1611).]
A dwarf; a diminutive person, or plant.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 237 margin, He was (belike) some Pomilio or litle dwarfe. 1776Evelyn's Sylva 36 The warmer regions produce the tallest and goodliest trees and plants..far exceeding those of the same species, born in the cold North, so as what is a giant in the one, becomes a pumilo, and in comparison, but a shrubby dwarf in the other. |