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English
Etymology
From animalcule + -ist.
Pronunciation
Noun
animalculist (plural animalculists)
- (historical) A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism.
- (obsolete) Someone who studies animalcules.
1882, “Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 22: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.
Translations
believer in the theory of animalculism
someone who studies animalcules
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Adjective
animalculist (comparative more animalculist, superlative most animalculist)
- (historical) Pertaining to animalculism.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French animalculiste.
Noun
animalculist m (plural animalculiști)
- animalculist
Declension
Declension of animalculist