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archaea

UK/ɑːˈkiːə/US/ɑrˈkiə/

archaea is the plural of archaeon.

Meaning of archaeon

Noun

archaeon (plural archaeons or archaea)

  1. A prokaryotic organism; a member of the domain Archaea
    • Then, the theory goes, a rogue archaeon gobbled up a bacterium to create an entirely new type of cell that would go on to form the basis of all complex life on Earth, from plants to humans.2020 January 15, Hannah Devlin, The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    archaebacterium

Words formed from archaea

Questions about archaea

What is archaea the plural of?
Archaea is the plural of archaeon.
How do you pronounce archaea?
Archaea is pronounced /ɑːˈkiːə/ (UK).

Words near archaea in the dictionary

  1. archabbey
  2. archabbeys
  3. archabbot
  4. archabbots
  5. archae-
  6. archaea
  7. archaeacidal
  8. archaeal
  9. archaean
  10. archaeans
  11. archaeastronomy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archaea (page history and authors); archaeon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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