animalcule

Example Sentences

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He owed all of this to one thing: His cutting edge microscopes and their ability to study "animalcules," as bacteria were then called.

From Salon

The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, wooly mammoths roamed the earth.

From Scientific American

Stentors — or trumpet animalcules — are a group of single-celled freshwater protozoa.

From Nature

But research has shown that this community of “animalcules” that live in our bodies can be changed, and in relatively short time - in ways both good and bad.

From Washington Times

In the years that followed, the county conducted numerous water quality tests at the spring, which they say contained some bacteria, plant matter and microscopic “animalcules.”

From Washington Times