Homunculusnoun
A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
Midgetnoun
(originally) A little sandfly.
‘Although tiny and just two-winged, midgets can bite you till you itch all over your unprotected skin.’;
Homunculusnoun
The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.
Midgetnoun
(loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge
Homunculusnoun
A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.
Midgetnoun
A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".
Homunculusnoun
a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
Midgetnoun
(sometimes derogatory) Any short person.
Homunculusnoun
a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
Midgetnoun
(attributively) A small version of something; miniature.
‘the midget pony’;
Homunculus
A homunculus (UK: hom-UNK-yuul-əs, US: hohm-, Latin: [hɔˈmʊŋkʊlʊs]; ) is a representation of a small human being. Popularized in sixteenth-century alchemy and nineteenth-century fiction, it has historically referred to the creation of a miniature, fully formed human.
‘little person’;
Midgetnoun
A minute bloodsucking fly.
Midgetnoun
A very diminutive person having normal proportions of the body parts; compare dwarf.
Midgetnoun
a person who is abnormally small
Midgetadjective
very small;
‘diminutive in stature’; ‘a lilliputian chest of drawers’; ‘her petite figure’; ‘tiny feet’; ‘the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy’;
Midget
Midget (from midge, a sand fly) is a term for a person of unusually short stature that is considered by some to be pejorative. While not a medical term, it has been applied to persons of unusually short stature, often with dwarfism, a medical condition with a number of causes including achondroplasia, and particularly proportionate dwarfism.