ANIMALCULA

ANIMALCULUM

animalcule, animalculum

(noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

animalcula

plural of animalculum

Source: Wiktionary


ANIMALCULUM

An`i*mal"cu*lum, n.; pl. Animalcula. Etym: [NL. See Animalcule.]

Definition: An animalcule.

Note: Animalculæ, as if from a Latin singular animalcula, is a barbarism.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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