Associations to the word «Homunculus»

Wiktionary

HOMUNCULUS, noun. A little man.
HOMUNCULUS, noun. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

Dictionary definition

HOMUNCULUS, noun. A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal.
HOMUNCULUS, noun. A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell.

Wise words

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery