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animalcule

[an-uh-mal-kyool] / ˌæn əˈmæl kjul /
NOUN
amoeba
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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

Malaria's cause is known: a tiny animalcule injected by a mosquito's sting.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crablike animalcule is most at home burrowing under the skins of people who do not wash much.

From Time Magazine Archive

No; we have no recoil against this generation of an animalcule by the wonderful chemistry of God; our objection to this doctrine is, that it is not proved.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various


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