homunculus 的定义
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.
homunculus 近义词
等同于 midget
homunculus 的近义词 9 个
homunculus 的反义词 1 个
等同于 runt
等同于 dwarf
更多homunculus例句
- 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.