Hyraxes are well-furred rotund creatures with a mere stump for a tail.

His legs were mere stumps, but it didn't seem to bother him.

His former arm sockets were mere stumps of cinnabar.

One had its head protruding from its belly, its neck a mere stump.

Every child's hands were scratched by the time the bush had been reduced to a mere stump.

With the Black Knight now reduced to a mere stump of a man, he says, "All right, we'll call it a draw."

Usually the arms and legs of the figures are mere stumps but some attempt at a realistic body shape has been made.

If the conditions of a water source are unsuitable, a larva will shrink its gills to mere stumps, and may not function at all.

The herbivore had reduced the trees of its enclosure to mere stumps.

The next two posts along the causeway had rotted away to mere stumps.