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  • Perhaps it is some microscopic Animalcule we cannot Perceive with our Lenses.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • I had coaxed the Sun-Animalcule to plink out a steel-drum melody.

    DIY Tunes Turn It Up 2006

  • I had coaxed the Sun-Animalcule to plink out a steel-drum melody.

    DIY Tunes Turn It Up 2006

  • Animals come to have definite "answers back," sometimes several, sometimes only one, as in the case of the Slipper Animalcule, which reverses its cilia when it comes within the sphere of some disturbing influence, retreats, and, turning upon itself tentatively, sets off again in the same general direction as before, but at an angle to the previous line.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • It may be said that the Slipper Animalcule has but one answer to every question, but there are many Protozoa which have several enregistered reactions.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • For the body of a many-celled Wheel Animalcule or Rotifer is no bigger than many a Protozoon.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • Animalcule upon its bosom, that it saw not, heeded not.

    Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893

  • The first new species added this week is the Sun-Animalcule, and this Electroplankton changes its pitch depending on where it grows, as it starts its life as an egg.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • The first new species added this week is the Sun-Animalcule, and this Electroplankton changes its pitch depending on where it grows, as it starts its life as an egg.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • The first new species added this week is the Sun-Animalcule, and this Electroplankton changes its pitch depending on where it grows, as it starts its life as an egg.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

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  • This is a very cute-sounding word!

    March 16, 2010