He further adds, that in the semen of young animals the animalculae are motionless, but as the age for reproduction comes on they move about with great vivacity.
Having inclosed the seed of a dog in a vial, he says, that numbers of the animalculae died the first day; the second and third there died still more, and very few remained alive the fourth.
It was especially supposed that the imperceptible animalculae immediately sprang up from the wrecks of death.
Freynel saw millions of square yards covered by a crimson glow--that glow, consisting of living animalculae so minute that a myriad is packed into every square inch.
Being no longer persecuted, it will return to the temperate zone, which is its natural climate, where it will find its natural food in the abounding animalculae of the comparatively warm waters.
We are damned, we are meant to be damned, coralanimalculae building upward, upward in a sea of damnation.
A real living being--live enough, at any rate, to give birth to mankind, to microscopic animalculaefirst and through them to man.
The wiggling animalculae in the stagnant water is but a prototype of the writhing serpent of the Brazilian forest.
And with that he hobbled off, for it was Sunday afternoon, and he was on his way to St. George's Hall to delight the assembled skeptics, by telling them in an elaborate lecture what absurd animalculae they all were!
It is scarcely possible to procure moist sugar which is not infested with animalculae of the acari genus, a most disgusting class of creatures.
In the drop of water you see how the animalculae vary, how vast and terrible are some of those monster mites as compared with others.
Nay, it was not precisely of spirits that I spoke; but there may be forms of matter as invisible and impalpable to us as the animalculae in the air we breathe,--in the water that plays in yonder basin.
Such beings may have passions and powers like our own--as the animalculae to which I have compared them.
The tongue of the whale is twenty feet long, and this member, by means of which he pushes to the top of his palate the animalculae on which he feeds (as you would a gooseberry), gives the whaler six tons of oil.
Only the toothed whale eats fish; the others live upon animalculae and the most minute of marine life, called "brit" by the whalers.
The kind of life led by several of theseanimalculae is as 52 yet little known.
Yes," replied Harding, "there will be new continents which millions and millions of animalculae are building at this moment.
Hence," says Bostock, "we can scarcely refuse our assent to the position that these animalculae are in some way or other instrumental to the production of the foetus.
I think no one can be disposed to maintain that the animalculae merely reaches the surface of the ovum and thus impregnates it.
It may be noticed that Leeuwenhoek estimates that ten thousand animalculae of the human semen may exist in a space not larger than a grain of sand.
First, it is admitted on all hands that the seminal animalculae are essential to impregnation, since "they cannot be detected when either from age or disease the animal is rendered sterile.
It would be an interesting fact to ascertain if there be no seminal animalculae in these cases; and whether medicines of any kind are available.
The opinion that the spermatozoa of seminal filaments are real animalculae is now abandoned, but it is held by Dr.
Be this as it may, it appears to be admitted on all hands that the animalculae are present in the semen of the various species of male animals, and that they cannot be detected when either from age or disease the animals are rendered sterile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "animalculae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
