animalcule
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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
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Malaria's cause is known: a tiny animalcule injected by a mosquito's sting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The amoeba is constantly changing its shape, whence its older name of the Proteus animalcule, thrusting out masses of its substance in one direction, and withdrawing from another, and hence slowly creeping about.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)