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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ho•mun•cu•lus (hə mung′kyə ləs, hō-),USA pronunciation n., pl. -li (-lī′).USA pronunciation - an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- a fully formed, miniature human body believed, according to some medical theories of the 16th and 17th centuries, to be contained in the spermatozoon.
- a diminutive human being.
- Developmental Biologythe human fetus.
- Latin, equivalent. to homun- (variant of homin-, stem of homō man; see Homo) + -culus -cule1
- 1650–60
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