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Definition of homunculus. plural. homunculi. play \hÅ-ËmÉÅ-kyÉ-ËlÄ«, -ËlÄ\. 1 : a little man : manikin. 2 : a miniature adult that in the theory of preformation is held to inhabit the germ cell and to produce a mature individual merely by an increase in size.
Paracelsus comes quickly to mind as the medical thinker who offers a recipe for the formation of a âchymicall homunculusâ in the controversial late treatise, De rerum naturae (1537), addressed to his brother and summarizing the gist of his knowledge as he saw it in the last phase of his life.