Definition of Animalculum. Meaning of Animalculum. Synonyms of Animalculum

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Definition of Animalculum

Animalculum
Animalculum An`i*mal"cu*lum, n.; pl. Animalcula. [NL. See Animalcule.] An animalcule. Note: Animalcul[ae], as if from a Latin singular animalcula, is a barbarism.

Meaning of Animalculum from wikipedia

- Animalcule (Latin for 'little animal'; from animal and -culum) is an archaic term for microscopic organisms that included bacteria, protozoans, and very...
- Dutch for 'small animals' (translated into English as animalcules, from animalculum Latin for 'tiny animal') In A Short History of Nearly Everything (p. 236)...
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, describing them as a type of "animalculum". In his work Leeuwenhoek clearly described the process of budding, as...