n. A kind of pudding or mass of boiled paste, or a wrapping of paste in which fruit is boiled.n. A dwarf.n. Any one of two or three species of dwarf, stemless, succulent evergreen plants belonging to the genus Mesembryan-themum, especially M. minimum, called the small dumpling, a plant only half an inch high, and M. obcordellum, called the greater dumpling, which is about an inch higher.