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animalcule

[ an-uh-mal-kyool ]

noun

  1. 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.


animalcule

/ 藢忙n瑟藞m忙lkju藧l; 藢忙n瑟藞m忙lkj蕣l蓹m /

noun

  1. a microscopic animal such as an amoeba or rotifer
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢补苍颈藞尘补濒肠耻濒补谤, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 补苍路颈路尘补濒路肠耻路濒补谤 [an-, uh, -, mal, -ky, uh, -ler], 补苍路颈路尘补濒路肠耻路濒颈苍别 [an-, uh, -, mal, -ky, uh, -lin], 补苍顎卛路尘补濒顎僣耻路濒辞耻蝉 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of animalcule1

First recorded in 1590鈥1600, animalcule is from the New Latin word animalculum 鈥渁 small animal.鈥 See animal, -cule 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of animalcule1

C16: from New Latin animalculum a small animal
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Upon learning of a red snowfield in the Swiss Alps, the American Naturalist reported that a Mr. Shuttleworth 鈥渂etook himself thither鈥 with his microscope and declared the color due to tiny animalcules.

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He owed all of this to one thing: His cutting edge microscopes and their ability to study "animalcules," as bacteria were then called.

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The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, wooly mammoths roamed the earth.

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Stentors 鈥 or trumpet animalcules 鈥 are a group of single-celled freshwater protozoa.

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But research has shown that this community of 鈥渁nimalcules鈥 that live in our bodies can be changed, and in relatively short time - in ways both good and bad.

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