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Animalcule (Latin for 'little animal'; from
animal and -culum) is an
archaic term for
microscopic organisms that
included bacteria, protozoans, and very...
- Stentor,
sometimes called trumpet animalcules, are a
genus of filter-feeding,
heterotrophic ciliates,
representative of the heterotrichs. They are usually...
- "wheel", and -fer, "bearing"),
commonly called wheel animals or
wheel animalcules, make up a
phylum (Rotifera /roʊˈtɪfərə/) of
microscopic and near-microscopic...
- and Rec Rec and
Lumiloop were
released on July 22.
Luminaria and Sun
Animalcule were
released August 5, and
Marine Snow and
Volvoice were
released August...
- diertjes. He was the
first to
relatively determine their size. Most of the "
animalcules" are now
referred to as
unicellular organisms,
although he
observed multicellular...
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shape to that of a slipper, and
commonly referred to it as the "slipper
animalcule." The
pellicle is
uniformly covered with cilia, and has a long oral groove...
- this
creature the name "Chausson", or "slipper", and the
phrase "slipper
animalcule"
remained in use as a
colloquial epithet for Paramecium,
throughout the...
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called these microscopic living organisms "
animalcules",
meaning "little animals".
Those "very
little animalcules" he was able to
isolate from
different sources...
- the same time, and that
succeeding generations grow from homunculi, or
animalcules, that have
existed since the
beginning of creation,
which is typically...
- to the
common species now
known as
Amoeba proteus. The term "Proteus
animalcule"
remained in use
throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, as an informal...
