Animalculum
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historical examples
animalcula is the plural of animalculum; there is no such word as animalculœ.
every-day errors of speech l. p. meredith
animalculum (plural, animalcula) is used with the same meaning.
a treatise on physiology and hygiene joseph chrisman hutchison
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