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circumneutral

circumneutral adjective: approximately neutral.

Adjective

circumneutral (not comparable)

  1. Approximately neutral.
    • The most diverse set of introns were observed in a high-temperature, circumneutral (pH 6) sulfur sediment environment, which also contained the greatest diversity of different Thermoproteales phylotypes.2015 July 9, Zackary J. Jay, William P. Inskeep, “The distribution, diversity, and importance of 16S rRNA gene introns in the order Thermoproteales”, in Biology Direct, volume 10, →DOI

Origin of circumneutral

From circum- + neutral.

Questions about circumneutral

What does circumneutral mean?
Circumneutral means approximately neutral.
What part of speech is circumneutral?
Circumneutral is an adjective.

Words near circumneutral in the dictionary

  1. circumnavigations
  2. circumnavigator
  3. circumnavigators
  4. circumnavigatory
  5. circumnebular
  6. circumneutral
  7. circumnuclear
  8. circumnutate
  9. circumnutated
  10. circumnutates
  11. circumnutating

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