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Definitions of animalcule in various dictionaries:
noun - microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
A microscopic or minute organism, such as an amoeba or a paramecium, usually considered to be an animal.
A tiny animal, such as a mosquito.
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| Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper |
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| Jul 29 2009 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
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| a microscopic animal. |
| microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium |
| A microscopic animal. |
| A microscopic or minute organism, such as an amoeba or paramecium, usually considered to be an animal. |
| Archaic A tiny animal, such as a mosquito. |
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Animalcule ("little animal", from Latin animal + the diminutive suffix -culum) is an older term for a microscopic animal or protozoan. The concept appears to have been understood at least as early as c. 30 BC, as evidenced by the following translation from Marcus Varro's Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres: * 'Note also if there be any swampy ground, both for the reasons given above, and because certain minute animals, invisible to the eye, breed there, and, borne by the air, reach the inside of the body by way of the mouth and nose, and cause diseases which are difficult to be rid of.'Some better-known animalcules include: * Actinophrys, and other heliozoa, called sun animalcules * Amoeba, called Proteus animalcule * Noctiluca scintillans, commonly called the 'Sea Sparkles' * Paramecium, called slipper animalcules * Rotifers, called wheel animalcules * Stentor, called trumpet animalcules * Vorticella, and other peritrichs, called bell animalculesThe term was also used by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the 17th-ce |