Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rotifer. See
Rotifera (with cut), also cuts under Floscularia, Rotifer, and trochal.
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Examples
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Must it some time or other be moistened with tears, until it comes to life again and begins to stir in our consciousness, -- as the dry wheel-animalcule, looking like a grain of dust, becomes alive, if it is wet with a drop of water?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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If that primitive physician, CHIRON, M.D., appears as a Centaur, as we look at him through the lapse of thirty centuries, the modern country-doctor, if he could be seen about thirty miles off, could not be distinguished from a wheel-animalcule.
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D., appears as a Centaur, as we look at him through the lapse of thirty centuries, the modern country-doctor, if he could be seen about thirty miles off, could not be distinguished from a wheel-animalcule.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Must it some time or other be moistened with tears, until it comes to life again and begins to stir in our consciousness, -- as the dry wheel-animalcule, looking like a grain of dust, becomes alive, if it is wet with a drop of water?
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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D., appears as a Centaur, as we look at him through the lapse of thirty centuries, the modern country-doctor, if he could be seen about thirty miles off, could not be distinguished from a wheel-animalcule.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Must it some time or other be moistened with tears, until it comes to life again and begins to stir in our consciousness, -- as the dry wheel-animalcule, looking like a grain of dust, becomes alive, if it is wet with a drop of water?
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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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' Francis Bowen 1850
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