animalculum Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
    animalcule.

WordNet

An`i*mal"cu*lum noun
Etymology
NL. See Animalcule.
Wordforms
plural Animalcula
Definitions
  1. An animalcule. ✍ Animalculæ, as if from a Latin singular animalcula, is a barbarism.

Webster 1913