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animalcule
[ an-uh-mal-kyool ]
noun
- a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
- Archaic. a tiny animal, as a mouse or fly.
animalcule
/ ˌænɪˈmælkjʊləm; ˌænɪˈmælkjuːl /
noun
- a microscopic animal such as an amoeba or rotifer
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Derived Forms
- ˌaniˈmalcular, adjective
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Other Words From
- an·i·mal·cu·lar [an-, uh, -, mal, -ky, uh, -ler], an·i·mal·cu·line [an-, uh, -, mal, -ky, uh, -lin], ani·malcu·lous adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of animalcule1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of animalcule1
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Example Sentences
This is a one-celled animal known as the paramœcium or the slipper animalcule (because of its shape).
Indeed, too sadly so, and I dare apply but a flash of the microscope to the rageing dilemmas of this animalcule.
These movements are termed amoebiform, because they quite resemble the movements of a small animalcule which is named amoeba.
Shall physical or chemical forces explain why the animalcule digs into the hard clay?
At one end of the ascending scale of organic life we see an animalcule swimming in the direction in which it is attracted by food.
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