Thesaurus: homunculus

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1. n. A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.
2. n. a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
3. n. a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
4. A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. Sterne.
5. n:100 n. a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell