animalcule
nounEtymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin animalculum (“lowly or small animal”) + English -cule (diminutive suffix). Animalculum is derived from Latin animal (“animal; living creature”) + -culum (diminutive suffix); and animal from animāle, the nominative neuter singular of animālis (“animate, living; relating to living creatures”), from anima (“breath; life; soul, spirit”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). The English word is analysable as animal + -cule.
Definitions
A sperm cell or spermatozoon
A sperm cell or spermatozoon; also, the embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state.
A microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers.
- If we are part of nature, then we are synonymous with it at the metaphysical level, every bit as much as the first all-but-inorganic animalcules that ever formed a chain of themselves in the blow hole of a primordial sea vent.
A small animal.
- Why, there is not a Man, or a Thing, now alive but has tools. The basest of created animalcules, the Spider itself, has a spinning-jenny, and warping-mill, and power-loom within its head: […]
- Is it not evident that if a parasitic animalcule desired to call its attention it would sink a hole in its shell and so stimulate its sensory apparatus?
The neighborhood
- synonymanimalcula
- synonymanimalculum
- neighboranimalcula
- neighboranimalculum
- neighborbell animalcule
- neighboreye animalcule
- neighborglobe animalcule
- neighborproteus animalcule
- neighborslipper animalcule
- neighborsun animalcule
- neighbortrumpet animalcule
- neighborwheel animalcule
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for animalcule. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA