bell animalcule

English

Noun

bell animalcule (plural bell animalcules)

  1. (zoology) A protozoan of the family Vorticellidae, common in freshwater ponds.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 bell animalcule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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