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dwarf

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To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).

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Children can take tractor rides, meet the animals (a horse, three ponies, two dwarf goats, as well as guinea pigs, rabbits and cats), collect eggs while adults can loll in one of three saunas.

Many of the plants are what we know as dwarf conifers, but the name is misleading because, if they'd been left to their own devices, most would be full-sized trees by now.

This is trimmed a number of times a year to keep it truly tiny, and shows how it would clearly make a superb substitute for dwarf box hedging.

Related: Dwarf planet discovery hints at a hidden Super Earth in solar system After its encounter with Pluto, New Horizons will speed out into the Kuiper belt, a zone of frozen rocks and asteroids that marks the outer solar system, and will rendezvous with another small planet – yet to be selected – in several years' time.

What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.

Some cities are so powerful economically that they dwarf the rest of their country.

So it was downgraded to dwarf planet status.

Awarded to St Kilda football club, who marked the end of the AFL season by setting a dwarf on fire.

Remittance payments to Somalia dwarf aid spending.

In 1989 Voyager 2 flashed past Triton, which is now the largest moon of Neptune, but probably began life as a dwarf much like Pluto before falling under the deep blue planet's sway.

Capital flows driven by interest-rate differentials between rich and emerging economies (see right-hand chart) dwarf those caused by capital controls in other emerging markets, after all.

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