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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) homunculus
a fully formed, miniature human body believed, according to some medical theories of the 16th and 17th centuries, to be contained in the spermatozoon.

2. homunculus
a graphic projection of the human image onto the surface of the motor cortex of the brain, depicting the extent of the area activating each part of the body subject to voluntary control.

3. homunculus
a diminutive human being.

Etymology: (1650–60; < L, =homun-, var. of homin-, s. of homō man (see Homo ) +-culus -cule¹)

Definition of 'homunculus'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) manikin, mannikin, homunculus
a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal

2. (noun) homunculus
a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell

Definition of 'homunculus'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) homunculus
a little man; a dwarf; a manikin

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