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- noun Plural form of
animalcule .
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Franklin would have called them "animalcules" - the word bacteria wasn't in use until 1838.
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Franklin would have called them "animalcules" - the word bacteria wasn't in use until 1838.
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It was one thing to discover new continents or new constellations, and quite another to discover, as Antonie van Leeuwenhoek — the Dutch inventor of the microscope — did with some horror, that whole kingdoms of "animalcules" were carrying on their lives within his own mouth.
The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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It is, of course, fitting that ciliates were among the original "animalcules".
Archive 2006-08-01 AYDIN 2006
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Look at "cavorting beasties" through the unique, high-quality, easy-view microscopes and see some of the "animalcules" that were seen for the first time over 300 years ago!
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Look at "cavorting beasties" through the unique, high-quality, easy-view microscopes and see some of the "animalcules" that were seen for the first time over 300 years ago!
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Look at "cavorting beasties" through the unique, high-quality, easy-view microscopes and see some of the "animalcules" that were seen for the first time over 300 years ago!
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Look at "cavorting beasties" through the unique, high-quality, easy-view microscopes and see some of the "animalcules" that were seen for the first time over 300 years ago!
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One of the new sights that van Leeuwenhoek described was individual ova and spermatozoa - the sperm cells he described as "animalcules", tiny animals in which he claimed to discern muscles and nerves
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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"Say that the blood-globule of one of our animalcules is a millionth of an inch in diameter.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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