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homunculus

UK/hɒˈmʌŋk.jʊ.ləs//həˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/

homunculus noun: a small, artificially created human or human-like being.

Noun

homunculus (plural homunculi or homunculuses)

  1. A small, artificially created human or human-like being.
  2. (broadly) A small human.
  3. A miniature adult, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
    • Ser Perth stayed near him most of the time now. The man was obviously worried, but tried not to show it. "We've managed to get some testosterone from a blond homunculus," he reported. "That should put you on your feet in no time. Don't worry, young man we'll keep you vivified somehow until the Sign...1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling
    • “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of...2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2025
  4. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

homunculus meaning in Tamil

homunculus in Tamil

அங்கப்பாரிபற்றகுள்ளர், இயல்பான உடல் அமப்புற்ற குள்ளர், குட்டயர்

Examples of homunculus in a sentence

  • "We've managed to get some testosterone from a blond homunculus," he reported.1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
  • “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said.2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08...

Forms of homunculus

pluralhomunculi
pluralhomunculuses
alternative misspellinghomonculus

Plural of homunculus: homunculi or homunculuses

Origin of homunculus

Borrowed from Latin homunculus, from homō (“man”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Words formed from homunculus

Phrases with homunculus

Questions about homunculus

What does homunculus mean?
Homunculus means a small, artificially created human or human-like being.
What is homunculus in Tamil?
Homunculus in Tamil is அங்கப்பாரிபற்றகுள்ளர், இயல்பான உடல் அமப்புற்ற குள்ளர், குட்டயர். See Homunculus meaning in Tamil.
How do you use homunculus in a sentence?
"We've managed to get some testosterone from a blond homunculus," he reported.
What part of speech is homunculus?
Homunculus is a noun.
How do you pronounce homunculus?
Homunculus is pronounced /hɒˈmʌŋk.jʊ.ləs/ (UK).
What is the plural of homunculus?
The plural of homunculus is homunculi.

Words near homunculus in the dictionary

  1. homuncule
  2. homuncules
  3. homunculi
  4. homunculine
  5. homunculines
  6. homunculus
  7. homunculus argument
  8. homunculus arguments
  9. homunculuses
  10. homy
  11. Homyel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homunculus (page history and authors); homunculus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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