a. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Characterized by the presence of corpuscles or minute organisms.
1871. Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (1879), I. v. 143. The finest cocoons may envelope doomed corpusculous moths.
1882. R. A. Proctor, in Cornh. Mag., March, 307. (Germs) Entirely the effect of a single corpusculous repast.
