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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

/ ˌænɪˈmælkjuËl; ˌænɪˈmælkjÊŠlÉ™m /

noun

  1. a microscopic animal such as an amoeba or rotifer
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Derived Forms

  • ËŒ²¹²Ô¾±Ëˆ³¾²¹±ô³¦³Ü±ô²¹°ù, adjective
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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
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of animalcule1

First recorded in 1590–1600, animalcule is from the New Latin word animalculum “a small animal.†See animal, -cule 1
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˜yÐÄvlog 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 “betook himself thither†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 — or trumpet animalcules — are a group of single-celled freshwater protozoa.

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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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