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animalcule 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Noun
/ˌanəˈmalˌkyo͞ol/,
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animalcules, plural;
  1. A microscopic animal

  1. microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
  2. Animalcule ("little animal", from Latin animal + the diminutive suffix -culum) is an older term for a microscopic animal or protozoan. ...
  3. A minute animal: generally applied to those visible only by the microscope.
  4. microbe. "Had the animalcule of the itch been endowed with reason they would have quit their entrenchments . . ." (111).