homunculus

英 [hə'mʌŋkjələs] 美 [hə'mʌŋkjələs]

• n. 矮人；胎儿；人体模型

英英释义

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

经典引文

• There is an artificiall way of making an Homunculus, and..the Fairies..had some such originall.

  出自： Henry More

• An Herbal Remedy, swiftly swallow'd, which would loose the dread Homunculus from the womb.

  出自： E. Jong

近反义词

【近义词】

• manikin 侏儒
• mannikin 矮人