10 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
noun a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
noun a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
originBorrowed from Latin homunculus, from homō (“man”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
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