microscopical
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Day by day, these “atoms” grew and began to cling together until they became, in a couple of weeks, “the true microscopical Animals so often observed by Naturalists.”
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2016
“My Phial swarmed with Life,” he later wrote, “and microscopical Animals of most Dimensions, from some of the largest, to some of the least.”
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2016
The most famous of the microscopical discoveries reported by Hooke in his masterpiece was the ‘cellular’ structure of slices of cork viewed under the microscope.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
I had lectured in Edinburgh in mid-winter, the audience was small, the profits microscopical.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
The cell contributed by the female, the ovum that is, has quite a different structure and microscopical appearance.
From Embryology The Beginnings of Life by Leighton, Gerald R.
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