[f. as prec. + -IST.]
1. An adherent of Animalculism.
1816. Keith, Phys. Bot., II. 362. The theory of the animalculists.
1879. trans. Haeckel’s Evol. Man, I. ii. 37. The animalculists, or the believers in sperm, looked upon the moving seminal threads as the real animal germs.
2. One who makes a special study of animalcules.
