1) Amoeba 2) Animalculum
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1) Animalculum 2) Being 3) Organism
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Animalcule (`little animal`, from Latin animal + the diminutive suffix -culum) is an older term for a microscopic animal or protozoan. Some better-known animalcules include: The term was also used by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the 17th-century preformationist and discoverer of microorganisms, to describe spermatozoa. The word appears in the Major-Ge.....
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• (n.) A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. • (n.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.
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(from the article `biology`) ...feat for hand-ground lenses. Among his most conspicuous observations was the discovery in 1675 of the existence in stagnant water and prepared ...
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1. A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. ... 2. <zoology> An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. ... Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacae, and the siliceous Diatomaceae. Spermatic animalcu...
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An`i·mal'cule noun [ As if from a Latin
animalculum , dim. of
animal .]
1. A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. [ Obsolete]
Ray. 2. (Zoology) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See
Infusoria . » Many of the so-called
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Type: Term Pronunciation: an′i-mal′kūl Definitions: 1. Term used by believers in the preformation theory to designate the supposed miniature body contained in a gamete. See: homunculus
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Animalcule was a general name formerly given to many forms of animal life from their minute size.
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[
n] - microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
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animalcule 1. An animal so small as to be visible only with the aid of the microscope. 2. A microscopic or minute organism, as an amoeba or paramecium, usually regarded as an animal. —Word Info image © Copyright, 2006.
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animalculum noun microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
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a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer. · a tiny animal, as a mouse or fly.
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[Difficult words] microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
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[Obscure words] microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
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