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ANIMALCULUM (animalcula)
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Irregular inflected form: animalcula
Dictionary entry overview: What does animalculum mean?
• ANIMALCULUM (noun)
The noun ANIMALCULUM has 1 sense:
1. microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
Familiarity information: ANIMALCULUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
animalcule; animalculum
Hypernyms ("animalculum" is a kind of...):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
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