Dwarfish: alternatives and connections

To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.

A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady b…

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the…

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram.

The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm tast…

a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied…

Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.

A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- c…

A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is…

small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes…

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full siz…

A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the fi…