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animalcular

adj

Etymology

From animalcule + -ar.

  1. derived from *h₂enh₁-✻ — “to breathe”
  2. derived from animal — “animal; living creature”
  3. learned borrowing from animalculum — “lowly or small animal”
  4. formed as animalcular — “animalcule + -ar”

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling animalcules.

    • In my lecture on Dust and Disease in 1870 , I referred to an experiment made by Helmholtz upon himself which strikingly connected hay fever with animalcular life.

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