animalcule

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There are no fish in the heavy sea, but only microscopic animalcula.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

As microscopes were improved more kinds of animalcula were observed, and doctors gradually associated them with disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

When these animalcula or living atoms moved, they put forth two little horns, continually moving.

From Time Magazine Archive

I own that such is not known; but that indeed, the scholars of the College believed the disease was caused by the inhalation of truculent animalcula.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

V. LIX. gives drawings of six kinds of animalcula infusoria, which increase by dividing across the middle into two distinct animals.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus