Hypertext Webster Gateway: "homunculus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Homunculus \Ho*mun"cu*lus\, n.; pl. {Homunculi}. [L., dim. of
homo man.]
A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. --Sterne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
homunculus
n 1: a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed
or abnormal [syn: {manikin}, {mannikin}]
2: a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the
discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be
present in the sperm cell
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