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ho·mun·cu·lus

   [huh-muhng-kyuh-luhs, hoh-] Show IPA

noun, plural -li  [-lahy] Show IPA.

1.

an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flaskby an alchemist.

2.

a fully formed, miniature human body believed, accordingto some medical theories of the 16th and 17th centuries, tobe contained in the spermatozoon.

3.

a diminutive human being.

4.

the human fetus.