Definitions for animalcule

animalcule an·i·mal·cule

Spelling: [an-uh-mal-kyool]
IPA: /ˌæn əˈmæl kyul/

Animalcule is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 491 anagrams from letters in animalcule (aaceillmnu).

Definitions for animalcule

noun

  1. a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
  2. Archaic. a tiny animal, as a mouse or fly.

Origin of animalcule

First recorded in 1590-1600, animalcule is from the New Latin word animalculum a small animal. See animal, -cule1

Examples for animalcule

His first form is that which is permanent in the animalcule.

More surely than the eagle escapes the arrow, the animalcule escapes being crushed.

Shall physical or chemical forces explain why the animalcule digs into the hard clay?

animalcule (an-i-malkūl), a general name given to many forms of animal life from their minute size.

Before taking leave of the animalcule, let us devote a few lines to its instinct.

An animalcule that does not wriggle must be morbid or peculiar.

The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little.

But man contemplates the universe as an animalcule would an elephant.

In the light of such a rle the animalcule takes on a new interest.

Indeed, too sadly so, and I dare apply but a flash of the microscope to the rageing dilemmas of this animalcule.

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