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
No; it would only mean that the animalcule had returned to the occupations of its ditch, while the worlds and the peoples went spinning to their destiny.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona
