Duluth News Tribune: Northland Nature: Have fun spotting the four kinds of brown butterflies

Female meadow brown butterflies have fewer spots if they develop in warmer weather -- so climate change could make them less spotty, new research shows. Female Meadow Brown butterflies have fewer ...

MSN: These native small pollinator plants all attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds to tiny spaces

These native small pollinator plants all attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds to tiny spaces

The meaning of SMALL is having comparatively little size or slight dimensions. How to use small in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Small.

SMALL definition: 1. little in size or amount when compared with what is typical or average: 2. A small child is a…. Learn more.

Definition of small adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

1. In small pieces: Cut the meat up small. 2. Without loudness or forcefulness; softly. 3. In a small manner.

small (countable and uncountable, plural smalls) (nominalized) (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.

There are 77 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word small, ten of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.