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10 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
originLearned borrowing from Late Latin animalculum (“lowly or small animal”) + English -cule (diminutive suffix). Animalculum is derived from Latin animal (“animal; living creature”) + -culum (diminutive suffix); and animal from animāle, the nominative neuter singular of animālis (“animate, living; relating to living creatures”), from anima (“breath; life; soul, spirit”) (ultimately from…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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