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Definition of Animalcules
1. animalcule [n] - See also: animalcule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animalcules
Literary usage of Animalcules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"animalcules.—INFUSORIA AND ROTIFERA. 411. NOTHING can be more vague or scientifically
inappropriate than the title animalcules; since it only expresses the ..."
2. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery edited by Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore Stout Bell (1844)
"animalcules in the Intestinal Canal.—MM. Gruby and Dela- fond read a paper at
the Academic des Sciences, on the llth of December, on certain animalcules ..."
3. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"The disposition of the animalcules in a single group at the extremity of a simple
pedicle distinguishes it conspicuously from all known representatives of ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1883)
"THE RESURRECTION OF animalcules. M R. JABEZ HOGG has communicated to the Times
an account of some experiments he made by placing a few grains of dust from a ..."
5. A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her by Robert Main, Great Britain Admiralty (1871)
"The animalcules remain attached to the pieces of paper or mica employed in their
capture, and may be determined by subsequent microscopical observation. ..."
6. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Y. PROMINENT among the animals commonly discovered in fresh water are the Bryozoa,
or moss animalcules, also called Polyzoa. They are forms of exceedingly ..."
7. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1856)
"animalcules within and without! by the insect, than the leaf suddenly ... But the
varieties in the size of these invisible animalcules are not less than ..."
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