a. rare. [f. L. animalcul-um + -INE.] = ANIMALCULAR.
1821. Dwight, Trav. New Eng., I. xxxviii. 385. The nidus, in which the animalculine existence is formed. Ibid. That animalculine putrefaction is the immediate cause of those diseases … which are justly attributed to standing waters.
