animalcule
Example Sentences
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The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, wooly mammoths roamed the earth.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2021
And then there are the names: where its cultural presence permits, each animal or animalcule is followed by a list of folk nomenclature.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010
The crablike animalcule is most at home burrowing under the skins of people who do not wash much.
From Time Magazine Archive
Malaria's cause is known: a tiny animalcule injected by a mosquito's sting.
From Time Magazine Archive
His unity of organization, of which the humblest animalcule is a simple type, goes far beyond the preservation or even the improvement of his species: it touches the infinite though it cannot contain it.
From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney
