Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An animalcule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An animalcule.
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- noun
animalcule
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- noun microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
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Examples
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The hugest beast that roams the forest or plows the main is no more a living creature than the smallest insect or microscopic animalculum.
Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897
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For instance, there is the word animalcule (plural animalcules), also written animalculum (plural animalcula).
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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The hugest beast that roams the forest or plows the main is no more a living creature than the smallest insect or microscopic animalculum.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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Rational Review 2009
chained_bear commented on the word animalculum
See calcareous for a usage note.
February 23, 2008