| 单词 | homunculus |
| 释义 | homunculus (once / 56016 pages) n A homunculus is a "little man." In the 17th century, theorists called preformationists argued that a human being begins life as a tiny, preformed person — a homunculus — encapsulated in the sperm or, as some thought, in the egg. The preformationists were arguing against Aristotle's view that humans and other organisms begin life as unformed material that gradually takes shape, and, in the case of humans, this process includes a moment of "ensoulment" — when the embryo gets a soul and becomes fully human. A homunculus can also be a "little man" of any sort. You can describe your Ken doll as a homunculus. The word is the diminutive of the Latin word homo "man." WORD FAMILYhomunculus: homunculi USAGE EXAMPLESThat cloudy shroud includes the Homunculus Nebula, which is a relatively recent addition to the starscape. National Geographic(Oct 19, 2016) And they think that this person is their special human mind, which is called a homunculus, which means a little man. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in...(2003) From his pocket he took a clay homunculus figure, three inches tall, the last of those he’d made on Cairnholm. Ransom Riggs, Hollow City(2014) 1n a person who is very small or diminutive Syn|Hyper manikin, mannikin small person a person of below average size 2n a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell Hyper individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being |
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