noun
definition
A small animal.
definition
A microscopic aquatic animal or protozoan.
definition
A spermatozoon.
Examples of animalcules in a Sentence
The older text books called them ' slipper animalcules ' as with careful study under a compound microscope they do look like a slipper.
Bell animalcules are tiny unicellular organisms that belong to a group called the ciliates.
Most remarkable is its resemblance to the adult form of the Wheel animalcules, or Rotifera, which retain the prae-oral ciliated band as their chief organ of locomotion and prehension throughout life.
Needham (1713-1781) that animalcules did not develop in vegetable infusions which had been boiled and were kept in properly closed vessels.
White fluffy masses are often colonies of bell animalcules.
As you play, the sun sets and you begin placing moon-shaped Animalcules that make different sounds.