Animalcule: Definition and part of speech

Animalcule

  1. n. An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.
  2. n. A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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