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Noun Concept
Categories: Narrative techniques, Alchemical concepts, Paracelsus, Literary motifs, Monsters
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homunculus
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A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell WordNet 3.0
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A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A homunculus is a representation of a small human being, originally depicted as small statues made out of clay. Wikipedia
Either an artificial man created through alchemy, or, in contemporean science, a representation of a human or small creature used to illustrate the functioning of a system. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Alchemical miniature human being Wikidata
IS A
person
mythic humanoid
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
DIFFERENT FROM
cortical homunculus
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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homunculus
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homunculus
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homunculus
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Homonculi, Homonculus, homunculi

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