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Definition of animalcule in English: animalculenoun ˌanɪˈmalkjuːlˌænəˈmælkjul archaic A microscopic animal. Example sentencesExamples - It is in this context that the idea of an evaluative classification came into its own, a progressive scale of nature leading from the lowest animalcules to the glory of mankind.
- Three weeks later, on April 24, 1676, he discovered an incredible number of very little animalcules, marking the first sighting of bacteria.
- Looking at these samples with his microscope, Leeuwenhoek reported how in his own mouth: ‘I then most always saw, with great wonder, that in the said matter there were many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving.’
- Since animalcules were visible only under a microscope, most of the city's residents had neither seen nor heard of them.
- Leeuwenhoek tried ingenious ways to estimate the size of his animalcules.
- The lowest plant, or animalcule, feeds, grows, and reproduces its kind.
Derivatives adjective archaic In 1832 he had surmised cholera to be of animalcular origin, and later thought the same of tuberculosis and typhoid. Example sentencesExamples - That molecular was sometimes confounded with animalcular motion by several of the earlier microscopical observers, appears extremely probable from various passages in the writings of Leeuwenhoek.
- Bacteriology, and its forerunners from the 1840s (ideas of "specific chemical, fungal, and animalcular causes of disease"), also had an effect on ideas of universalised and specific disease causation.
- I feel the book also overstates Franklin's readiness to adopt an animalcular theory of disease transmission.
- Thanks to the diversity of natural and climatic conditions there exist the large number of elementary plants and animalcular organisms on the small territory of Armenia.
Origin Late 16th century: from modern Latin animalculum, from animal 'an animal' + -cule. Definition of animalcule in US English: animalculenounˌænəˈmælkjulˌanəˈmalkyo͞ol archaic A microscopic animal. Example sentencesExamples - The lowest plant, or animalcule, feeds, grows, and reproduces its kind.
- Leeuwenhoek tried ingenious ways to estimate the size of his animalcules.
- Since animalcules were visible only under a microscope, most of the city's residents had neither seen nor heard of them.
- Looking at these samples with his microscope, Leeuwenhoek reported how in his own mouth: ‘I then most always saw, with great wonder, that in the said matter there were many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving.’
- Three weeks later, on April 24, 1676, he discovered an incredible number of very little animalcules, marking the first sighting of bacteria.
- It is in this context that the idea of an evaluative classification came into its own, a progressive scale of nature leading from the lowest animalcules to the glory of mankind.
Origin Late 16th century: from modern Latin animalculum, from animal ‘an animal’ + -cule. |