Sentences with animalcule
an·i·mal·cule
A a - The lowest plant, or animalcule, feeds, grows, and reproduces its kind.
- Three weeks later, on April 24, 1676, he discovered an incredible number of very little animalcules, marking the first sighting of bacteria.
- It is in this context that the idea of an evaluative classification came into its own, a progressive scale of nature leading from the lowest animalcules to the glory of mankind.
- Since animalcules were visible only under a microscope, most of the city's residents had neither seen nor heard of them.