Usually means: Miniature human created through alchemy.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. homunculus: Merriam-Webster
  2. homunculus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. homunculus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. homunculus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. homunculus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Homunculus, homunculus: Wordnik
  7. homunculus: Wiktionary
  8. homunculus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. homunculus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. homunculus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. homunculus: Dictionary.com
  12. homunculus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Homunculus (disambiguation), Homunculus (film), Homunculus (genus), Homunculus (manga), Homunculus (monkey), Homunculus (novel), Homunculus, The Homunculus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Homunculus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. homunculus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. homunculus: Rhymezone
  17. Homunculus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. homunculus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. homunculus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. homunculus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. homunculus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Homunculus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. homunculus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. homunculus: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Homunculus, homunculus: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See homunculi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (homunculus)

noun:  A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
noun:  The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

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