"Animalculum" is a word in ENGLISH
An animalcule.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
Read the complete definitionAn animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.
Read the complete definitionOf, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules.
Read the complete definitionThe theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
Read the complete definitionA believer in the theory of animalculism.
Read the complete definitionOne versed in the knowledge of animalcules.
Read the complete definitionAn infusorian of the family Vorticellidae, common in fresh-water ponds.
Read the complete definitionAn order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.
Read the complete definitionExceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
Read the complete definitionThe male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with …
Read the complete definitionAn order of minute aquatic arachnids; -- called also bear animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears.
Read the complete definitionA genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the …
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