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noun
A small, artificially created human or human-like being.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: alchemy, literature, media, pseudoscience, publishing, science-fiction
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noun
A small human.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
A miniature adult, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
noun
a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: manikin, mannikin
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Broader terms: small person
History
Borrowed from Latin homunculus, from homō (“man”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
