Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 10, 2011
animalcule \an-uh-MAL-kyool\, noun:
A minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye.
The B.O.'s sinister plan is to muster a legion of liberal animalcule and take over the world!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
The spirit was never anything but the parasite of man, the ringworm of his worthy body when the body was no more than an animalcule swimming around and having no desire about having to be worthy of existing.-- Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman, Artaud Anthology
His log states: " The sea was as ' white as milk ' - a uniform whiteness, not a reflection or sparkling emitted from animalcule or phosphorescent matter, and it was as light as day about the decks.-- Basil Lubbock, Deep sea warriors
Animalcule stems from the Latin animiculum, "little animal."
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