Wiktionary
animalcules
n. (plural of animalcule English)
Usage examples of "animalcules".
Cugel dispatched several hundred animalcules which presently returned with twenty small ingots of the precious metal.
No sound is allowed and meaning is conveyed by animalcules, which also procure the necessities of life.
Only sluggish things, worms and slimes and animalcules, things that needed no more energy than bacteria and yeast and other organisms that lived without oxygen, would survive.
A grain of gold or a blade of grass, the sands of the sea or the equally numerous animalcules inhabiting the endless fishy waters - the difference is there in the twilight zone of matter.