runty

1. She saved a runty pig and named him Wilbur.
   她拯救了出生时发育不良的小猪，并给他起名叫威伯。
2. A little girl is one thing, a little runty pig is another.
   一个小女孩是一码事儿，一个小瘦猪是另一码事儿。
3. Now, plantation after plantation was going back to the forest, and dismal fields of broomsedge, scrub oak and runty pines had grown stealthily about silent ruins and over old cotton fields.
   现在，一个接一个的农场已荒废成林地了，同时那些寂无人烟的废墟周围和原来种植棉花的地里也悄悄长满了小小的橡树和松树以及大片大片的扫帚草。

adj

1. (used especially of persons) of inferior size

   Synonym:    punyshrimpy

2. well below average height

   Synonym:    pint-sizepint-sizedsawed-offsawn-off