- a variation of microscopic.
microscopical
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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“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
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
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
It is theoretically possible that life may have begun with such creatures, which some of the results of microscopical research would lead us to believe still exist.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson
Some small filaments were subsequently removed with the lithotrite, but on microscopical examination nothing of diagnostic importance was discovered.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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