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homunculus
[ huh-muhng-kyuh-luhs, hoh- ]
noun
- an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- a fully formed, miniature human body believed, according to some medical theories of the 16th and 17th centuries, to be contained in the spermatozoon.
- a diminutive human being.
- the human fetus.
homunculus
/ hɒˈmʌŋkjʊləs /
noun
- a miniature man; midget
- (in early biological theory) a fully-formed miniature human being existing in a spermatozoon or egg
Derived Forms
- hoˈmuncular, adjective
Other Words From
- ho·muncu·lar adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of homunculus1
Word History and Origins
Origin of homunculus1
Example Sentences
In Sentient, we learn that spread across the human brain we can find a “sensory homunculus,” a touch map of the body with supersize areas corresponding to our hands and lips, reflecting the density of touch sensors in these zones.
Homunculus whales at this interval, erupting from a patch of ocean without pattern.
My scanned homunculus, dick and all, surely will appear online then go viral.
Homunculus denotes the weak and powerless being called man, with reference to the whole race, in opp.
We are far ahead of Tristram Shandy, nowadays; the inferiority of the homunculus is no mere matter of accident or interruption.
The word imports what the Latins call homunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mannikin.
Then came a yelling, a crashing among the branches, and a little pink homunculus rushed by us shrieking.
You men of the nineteenth century know only by reputation of our attempts to produce an homunculus, and a perpetuum mobile naturæ.
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