animalcule
noun
a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
animalculous
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a word derived from
animalcule.
Example Sentences
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GENERAL: I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous, In short in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-Gineral.
From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
