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a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
2.
Archaic. a tiny animal, as a mouse or fly.
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Animalcule
is always a great word to know.
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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animalcule
"very small animal," esp. a microscopic one, 1590s, from L.L. animalculum, dim. of L. animal (see animal).
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