dwarf

A race of small people, sometime with long beards. This is a type of fictional character found in legends all over the world, whose main characteristic is being much shorter than normal.

Example: In Scandinavian legends dwarves are considered as a true people, different from human beings.

A very little person. A dwarf is a person whose size is much smaller than average.

Example: She is a dwarf, only three feet (one meter) tall.

If something is dwarf is it smaller than normal. Anything of a much smaller than average size can be called dwarf..

Example: I kept a dwarf tree in my house.

If X dwarfs Y, X is much bigger than Y.

Example: The elephant dwarfed the people with it.