miniature

Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.

A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.

There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.

The twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany are conceived as a miniature of the whole year, the character of each particular day answering to the character of a particular month.

A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.

The miniature was a picture of Leo's Greek mother - a lovely, dark-eyed creature.

The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.

An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.

Smaller than normal.

I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs.

Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a "tool" that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb and, they hope, increase their understanding of neurological and mental problems. ¶ Just a few millimetres across, the "cerebral organoids" are built up of layers of brain cells with defined regions that resemble those seen in immature, embryonic brains.

To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature.

If it be ever so little removed, or seen thro’ the miniaturing End of the Perspective Glass, it either wholly escapes their Sight, or appears to them a mere Minutity.

The smile of the babe was in my eye, and in my heart. I saw miniatur’d forth, the features of the murdered Edward.