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archaeons

archaeons 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

Questions about archaeons

What is archaeons the plural of?
Archaeons is the plural of archaeon.

Words near archaeons in the dictionary

  1. archaeomusicologists
  2. archaeomusicology
  3. archaeomythological
  4. archaeomythology
  5. archaeon
  6. archaeons
  7. archaeonycteridid
  8. archaeonycteridids
  9. archaeopalaeontological
  10. archaeopaleontological
  11. archaeopalynological

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archaeons (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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