Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

animalculist

/anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-i-mal-culist
IPA: /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.

noun

Someone who studies animalcules.

Obsolete

adj

Pertaining to animalculism.

Example Sentences

"All at once a botanist, already celebrated, proclaimed that he had seen the embryo forming in the grain of pollen and penetrating the ovule with the pollenical tube. This unexpected animalculist was Schleiden."
"Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception."

Etymology

From animalcule + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: animalcule

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

animalculists (plural) more animalculist (comparative) most animalculist (superlative)

Questions

How do you pronounce animalculist?: The recorded pronunciation is /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/.
What does animalculist mean?: A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.
Where does animalculist come from?: From animalcule + -ist.

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