animalcule
noun
a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
animalculine
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a word derived from
animalcule.
Example Sentences
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The next circle, some four or five miles in width, represents a ring of cold lava-blocks, masses of rock-salt, and animalculine remains, from twenty-five to two hundred feet high.
From A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake
