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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
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Derived Forms
- hoˈmuncular, adjective
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Other Words From
- ho·muncu·lar adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of homunculus1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of homunculus1
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Example Sentences
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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