animalcule

• And this to a generation to whom God's love shines out in every tree and flower and hedge-side bird; to whom the daily discoveries of science are revealing that love in every microscopic animalcule which peoples the stagnant pool! —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
• Stentor - Also known as the "trumpet animalcule," Stentor is one of the largest cilated protozoans.
• A single wheel-animalcule, Hydatina senta_, which was watched for more than eighteen days, and which lives still longer, is capable of a fourfold increase in twenty-four or thirty hours; a rate of propagation which would afford in ten days a million of beings. —  A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
• In one of his later diaries, Scott himself gives the following more particular account of this matter I took lessons of oil-painting in youth from a little Jew animalcule--a smouch called Burrell--a clever, sensible creature though. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
• I remember well the thrill of delight and admiration that shot through me the first time that I discovered the common wheel animalcule (_Rotifera vulgaris_) expanding and contracting its flexible spokes, and seemingly rotating through the water. —  Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories

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