a. rare. [f. L. animalcul-um + -INE.] = ANIMALCULAR.
a. 1817. T. Dwight, Trav. New-Eng., etc. (1821), 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.
