animalcular

English

Alternative forms

• animalculine

Etymology

animalcule +‎ -ar

Adjective

animalcular (comparative more animalcular, superlative most animalcular)

1. Of, relating to, or resembling animalcules.
   • 1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews:

     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.