animalcular

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

animalcule +‎ -ar

Adjective

animalcular (comparative more animalcular, superlative most animalcular)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling animalcules.
    • 1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews:
      In my lecture on Dust and Disease in 1870 , I referred to an experiment made by Helmholtz upon himself which strikingly connected hay fever with animalcular life.
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