From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Manikin \Man"i*kin\, noun [Also spelled {mannikin}.] [OD. manneken, dim. of man man. See {Man}, and {-kin}.]
1. A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin.
2. A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal [syn: {manikin}, {homunculus}]
2: a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" [syn: {mannequin}, {manikin}, {manakin}, {fashion model}, {model}]
3: a life-size dummy used to display clothes [syn: {mannequin}, {manikin}, {manakin}, {form}]
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