— homuncular , adj.
/heuh mung"kyeuh leuhs, hoh-/ , n. , pl. homunculi /-luy'/ .
1. an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
2. a fully formed, miniature human body believed, according to some medical theories of the 16th and 17th centuries, to be contained in the spermatozoon.
3. a diminutive human being.
4. the human fetus.
[ 1650-60; homun- (var. of homin-, s. of homo man; see HOMO) + -culus -CULE 1 ]