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animalcule

an·i·mal·cule [ ànnə mál kyl ] (plural an·i·mal·cules) or an·i·mal·cu·lum [ ànnə málkyələm ] (plural an·i·mal·cu·la [ ànnə málkyələ ])


noun 
Definition:
 
microbe resembling animal: a microscopic organism such as an amoeba that moves about, eats other microbes, or resembles an animal in some other way ( archaic )

[Late 16th century. < modern Latin animalculum "little animal" < Latin animal(e) (see animal)]

an·i·mal·cu·lar adjective
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