Definition of Animalcula

1. animalculum [n] - See also: animalculum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animalcula

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animal spirits
animal starch
animal structures
animal stuffer
animal technicians
animal testing
animal testing alternatives
animal tissue
animal toxin
animal trainer
animal virus
animal viruses
animal welfare
animalcula (current term)
animalcular
animalcules
animalculist
animalculists
animalculum
animalian
animalic
animalier
animaliers
animalike
animalisation
animalise

Literary usage of Animalcula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Account of the Arctic Regions: With a History and Description of the by William Scoresby (1820)
"MEDUSA, or Sea-blubber; animalcula, &c.— A great number of species of these ... 179. of this volume); if to these we add the number of the animalcula that ..."

2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... that it cast flames like fire, which confirms the conjecture, that the brilliant appearance of the sea is owing to fish-spawn and animalcula. ..."

3. The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, Andrew Reid, John Gray, John Eames, John Martyn (1749)
"... and even in Waters that "* Waters> Л In my Observations of the animalcula in Waters, I have many of ... But as to the animalcula in Pepper-Water, ..."

4. Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 by John Bradbury, John Bywater (1817)
"THE following letters on animalcula infusoria and the physiology of plants, although not apparently connected with this work, are yet of a nature ..."

5. Lectures on the Structure and Physiology of the Male Urinary and Genital by James Wilson (1821)
"These animalcula, it is asserted by some physiologists, are not found in the fluid contained in the seminal organs until the period of puberty; ..."

6. The Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1831)
"ON THE EXISTENCE OF animalcula IN SNOW.— (Dr. Mure.) The following account was sent by Dr. JE Mure in a letter to Dr. Silliman. ' When the winter had made a ..."

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