English Dictionary

animalcule

IPA（発音記号）

/ænɪˈmælkjuːl/

名詞

廃用 歴史的

(obsolete) A small animal. / A microscopic aquatic animal or protozoan. / (now historical) A spermatozoon.

日本語の意味

(時代遅れ) 微小な動物 / 顕微鏡で観察可能な水中の微生物または原生動物 / (歴史的に) 精子

The naturalist carefully sketched an animalcule he observed under the microscope and pondered its place in the tree of life.

博物学者は顕微鏡で観察した小さな動物を注意深く写生し、その生物界における位置について思いを馳せた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A small animal.

'Is it not evident that if a parasitic animalcule desired to call its attention it would sink a hole in its shell and so stimulate its sensory apparatus?'

意味（2）

A microscopic aquatic animal or protozoan.

If we are part of nature, then we are synonymous with it at the metaphysical level, every bit as much as the first all-but-inorganic animalcules that ever formed a chain of themselves in the blow hole of a primordial sea vent.

意味（3）

(now historical) A spermatozoon.

Inside the animalcules in the thickest part of the semen he saw ‘all manner of great and small vessels […].’

animalcules （ plural ）