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animalcular

animalcular adjective: of, relating to, or resembling animalcules.

Adjective

animalcular (comparative more animalcular, superlative most animalcular)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling animalcules.
    • In my lecture on Dust and Disease in 1870 , I referred to an experiment made by Helmholtz upon himself which strikingly connected hay fever with animalcular life.1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews

Forms of animalcular

comparativemore animalcular
superlativemost animalcular
alternative formanimalculine

Origin of animalcular

From animalcule + -ar.

Questions about animalcular

What does animalcular mean?
Animalcular means of, relating to, or resembling animalcules.
What part of speech is animalcular?
Animalcular is an adjective.

Words near animalcular in the dictionary

  1. animal-assisted therapies
  2. animal-assisted therapy
  3. animal-like
  4. animal-reminder disgust
  5. animalcula
  6. animalcular
  7. animalcule
  8. animalcules
  9. animalculine
  10. animalculism
  11. animalculist

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