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Use "animalcules" in a sentence
"Franklin would have called them "animalcules" - the word bacteria wasn't in use until 1838."
"It was one thing to discover new continents or new constellations, and quite another to discover, as Antonie van Leeuwenhoek — the Dutch inventor of the microscope — did with some horror, that whole kingdoms of "animalcules" were carrying on their lives within his own mouth."
"It is, of course, fitting that ciliates were among the original "animalcules"."