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Homunculus Moderate

Homunculus has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal

2

a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell

3

A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
small person person
Rhyming Words
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