Stunted in growth; dwarfed, dwarfish, ill-thriven.

Of the nature of a knurl, dwarfish.

Resembling a dwarf, dwarfish; of unusually small size.

Of an organ or tissue: undersized at maturity owing to insufficient growth; hypoplastic anaemia, anæmia that is due to an insufficient production…

= achondroplastic, adj.

Also as n., a person suffering from ateleiosis.

applied to a form of dwarfism that results in death (see quot. 1977).