| 单词 | homunculus |
| 释义 | homunculus —homuncular, adj. /heuh mung"kyeuh leuhs, hoh-/, n. , pl. homunculi /-luy'/. 1. an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist. 2. a fully formed, miniature human body believed, according to some medical theories of the 16th and 17th centuries, to be contained in the spermatozoon. 3. a diminutive human being. 4. the human fetus. [1650-60; < L, equiv. to homun- (var. of homin-, s. of homo man; see HOMO) + -culus -CULE1] |
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