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archaeal

archaeal adjective: relating to the archaea.

Adjective

archaeal (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the archaea.
    • ‘Anyway, so we think an archaeal cell and a bacterial cell formed a close chemical dependency, and – we can’t say how this happened; this is the miracle – the two cells fused, became a single, chimerical identity.’2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 174

Origin of archaeal

From archaea + -al.

Words formed from archaeal

Questions about archaeal

What does archaeal mean?
Archaeal means relating to the archaea.
What part of speech is archaeal?
Archaeal is an adjective.

Words near archaeal in the dictionary

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

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