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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
/ ˌænɪˈmælkjuËl; ˌænɪˈmælkjÊŠlÉ™m /
noun
- a microscopic animal such as an amoeba or rotifer
Derived Forms
- ËŒ²¹²Ô¾±Ëˆ³¾²¹±ô³¦³Ü±ô²¹°ù, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²¹²Ô·¾±Â·³¾²¹±ô·³¦³Ü·±ô²¹°ù [an-, uh, -, mal, -ky, uh, -ler], ²¹²Ô·¾±Â·³¾²¹±ô·³¦³Ü·±ô¾±²Ô±ð [an-, uh, -, mal, -ky, uh, -lin], ²¹²Ôi·³¾²¹±ôc³Ü·±ô´Ç³Ü²õ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of animalcule1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of animalcule1
Example Sentences
Upon learning of a red snowfield in the Swiss Alps, the American Naturalist reported that a Mr. Shuttleworth “betook himself thither†with his microscope and declared the color due to tiny animalcules.
He owed all of this to one thing: His cutting edge microscopes and their ability to study "animalcules," as bacteria were then called.
The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, wooly mammoths roamed the earth.
Stentors — or trumpet animalcules — are a group of single-celled freshwater protozoa.
But research has shown that this community of “animalcules†that live in our bodies can be changed, and in relatively short time - in ways both good and bad.
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