animalcule
noun
a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
animalcular
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a word derived from
animalcule.
Example Sentences
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It sends its induced currents upon all the forming host of animalcular life floating in the dark waters, and some begin to grow brains.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
We will apply the method, in the first place, to an experiment of M. Pouchet intended to prove conclusively that animalcular life is developed in cases where no antecedent germs could possibly exist.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
The inability of air which had been filtered through cotton-wool to generate animalcular life, had been demonstrated by Schroeder and Pasteur: here the cause of its impotence was rendered evident to the eye.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
In my lecture on Dust and Disease in 1870, I referred to an experiment made by Helmholtz upon himself which strikingly connected hay fever with animalcular life.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
