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homunculus

/huh-muhng-kyuh-luhs, hoh-/US // həˈmʌŋ kyə ləs, hoʊ- //UK // (hɒˈmʌŋkjʊləs) //

同形体,同形物,同体人,同体

Related Words

gnome侏儒,矮人,团子,地精pygmy侏儒,侏儒症,侏儒症患者,侏儒的midget侏儒,矬子,矮子,矮人bantam幼儿,幼儿班,幼儿教育,幼儿教师runt矬子,矬子里拔将军,奔跑,跑步manikin人体模型,人工智能,人工智慧,人工呼吸器midge蠓虫,蠛蠓,蠓,蚊子punk朋克,庞克,痞子,废物peewee皮维,皮尤,农民工,牡丹花shrimp小虾,虾子,小虾米,虾米little person小人物,袖珍人,小人儿,小人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ho·mun·cu·li [huh-muhng-kyuh-lahy, hoh-]. /həˈmʌŋ kyəˌlaɪ, hoʊ-/.

    • : 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.
    • : the human fetus.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inmidget
Synonyms
gnome侏儒,矮人,团子,地精pygmy侏儒,侏儒症,侏儒症患者,侏儒的lilliputian小人国,小人国的人,小人国的,小人族bantam幼儿,幼儿班,幼儿教育,幼儿教师manikin人体模型,人工智能,人工智慧,人工呼吸器midge蠓虫,蠛蠓,蠓,蚊子runt矬子,矬子里拔将军,奔跑,跑步homuncule同调子,同位素,同源物,同调little person小人物,袖珍人,小人儿,小人
as inrunt
Synonyms
lilliputian小人国,小人国的人,小人国的,小人族half-pint半品脱,半瓶装,半瓶,半升midget侏儒,矬子,矮子,矮人peewee皮维,皮尤,农民工,牡丹花punk朋克,庞克,痞子,废物shrimp小虾,虾子,小虾米,虾米
as indwarf
Synonyms
midget侏儒,矬子,矮子,矮人lilliputian小人国,小人国的人,小人国的,小人族bantam幼儿,幼儿班,幼儿教育,幼儿教师tom thumb拇指,竖起大拇指,姆指dwarfling矮人,矮人族,小矮人,侏儒

Examples

  • My scanned homunculus, dick and all, surely will appear online then go viral.

  • Homunculus denotes the weak and powerless being called man, with reference to the whole race, in opp.

  • We are far ahead of Tristram Shandy, nowadays; the inferiority of the homunculus is no mere matter of accident or interruption.

  • The word imports what the Latins call homunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mannikin.

  • Then came a yelling, a crashing among the branches, and a little pink homunculus rushed by us shrieking.

  • You men of the nineteenth century know only by reputation of our attempts to produce an homunculus, and a perpetuum mobile naturæ.

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