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The smallest animal of a litter. / (by extension) The smallest child in the family. / Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. / (slang) An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.

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runt

/ˈɹʌnt/

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The smallest animal of a litter. / (by extension) The smallest child in the family. / Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. / (slang) An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.

The runt of the litter was the tiniest puppy.

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The smallest animal of a litter.

Sometimes, as we have seen, one member of a litter is a runt, much smaller than the rest. He is unable to fight for food as strongly as the rest, and runts often die. We have considered the conditions under which it would actually pay a mother to let a runt die.

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