Definitions for animalcules

animalcules an·i·mal·cule

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

Animalcules is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1005 anagrams from letters in animalcules (aaceillmnsu).

Definitions for animalcules

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 animalcules

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

Examples for animalcules

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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