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archeon

archeon is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of archeon

pluralarcheons

Questions about archeon

What is archeon the alternative spelling of?
Archeon is the alternative spelling of archaeon.

Words near archeon in the dictionary

  1. archeomaterial
  2. archeomaterials
  3. archeometallurgical
  4. archeometric
  5. archeometry
  6. archeon
  7. archeons
  8. archeopathology
  9. archeophone
  10. archeophones
  11. archeophyte

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archeon (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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