animalculum
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The plural of the Latin animalculum is animalcula.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by Bechtel, John Hendricks
The hugest beast that roams the forest or plows the main is no more a living creature than the smallest insect or microscopic animalculum.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey
Gesner has endeavoured to prove that the word ψυχή, so frequently found in the writings of Hippocrates, and translated anima, was synonymous with insectum, animalculum, papilio.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
