farandolae
noun, plural · /fuh-RAN-duh-lee/
Farandolae are tiny make-believe creatures in Madeleine L’Engle’s stories. They live inside even tinier parts of a cell, so they are much too small to see.
In a sentence
- "In the story, the farandolae learned how important their tiny world was."
- "Meg imagined the farandolae dancing like sparks inside a glowing cell."