homunculus
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
Types & categories
- small person hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
Types & categories
- person hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | small person |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |