Dwarf
Dwarf, dwarfs or dwarves may refer to:
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Common uses
- Dwarf (folklore), a being from Germanic mythology and folklore
- Dwarf, a person or animal with dwarfism
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons), a short humanoid race
- Dwarf (Middle-earth), a humanoid race in J. R. R. Tolkien's literature
- Dwarf (Warhammer), a humanoid race
- Dwarfs (Discworld), a race of characters
- Dwarves (Warcraft), a short, strong race
- Dwarves (Marvel Comics)
Literature
- The Dwarf (Cho novel), a 1978 novel by Cho Se-hui
- The Dwarf (Lagerkvist novel), a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Dwarfs?! (video game)
- Dwarves (band), American punk band
- Killer Dwarfs, Canadian heavy metal band
- Wrocław's dwarfs, small sculptures in Wrocław, Poland
Biology
- Phyletic dwarfism, an average decrease in size of animals
- Insular dwarfism, a evolutionary condition caused by genetic and environmental factors (e.g. no / little predators and smaller geography)
Cosmology
- Dwarf galaxy, in cosmology
- Dwarf planet, in cosmology
Other uses
- Dwarf, Kentucky
- DWARF, a debugging data format
- PYGMIES + DWARFS arguments
See also
- Dwarf star
- Dwarven language (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Dwarf (including many cross-references from common names of plants or animals)
- All pages with titles beginning with Dwarv
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