globe animalcule
English
Noun
globe animalcule (plural globe animalcules)
- (dated) A small, globular, locomotive organism (Volvox globator), once thought to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algae.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for globe animalcule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)