Words Like ANIMALCULE

We have put together a list of words that are similar to ANIMALCULE.

3 Alternative Words Similar to animalcule

1 Animalculum Noun      Synonym Words Like Animalculum
2 Being Noun      Synonym Words Like Being
3 Organism Noun      Synonym Words Like Organism

5 definitions of animalcule

1 Any little animal, as a mouse, insect, etc.
2 A minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer; an animalculum: as, the bell-animalcule, a ciliate infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ; wheel-animalcule, a rotifer; bear-animalcule, a minute arachnidan of the order Arctisca. See cuts under Arctisca, Rotifera, and Vorticella.
3 A minute or microscopic animal or protozoan.
4 A tiny animal, as a mouse or insect (fly, mosquito, midge).
5 microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
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