animalcule
Example Sentences
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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
But unluckily there was another animalcule in a square cap, who, taking the word from all his philosophical brethren, affirmed that he knew the whole secret, which was contained in the abridgment of St. Thomas.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
