Animalcule

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A microscopic or minute organism, such as an amoeba or paramecium, usually considered to be an animal.
  • n. Archaic A tiny animal, such as a mosquito.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A minute or microscopic animal or protozoan.
  • n. A tiny animal, as a mouse or insect (fly, mosquito, midge).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
  • n. An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any little animal, as a mouse, insect, etc.
  • n. A minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer; an animalculum: as, the bell-animalcule, a ciliate infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ; wheel-animalcule, a rotifer; bear-animalcule, a minute arachnidan of the order Arctisca. See cuts under Arctisca, Rotifera, and Vorticella.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    being    organism   
    Cross Reference
    seminal animalcule    proteus animalcule   
    Variant
    infusoria   
    Hyponym
    stentor    rotifer    amoeba    paramecium    heliozoa   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    animalcula    polype    whe    reversibility    petrography   
     
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