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Etymology
Etymology tree English archaea Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English archaeal From archaea + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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:
Deriveds
lokiarchaeal · methanoarchaeal · nanoarchaeal · nonarchaeal
Translations (2)
pl archeonowy (relating to the archaea) · pt arqueobacteriano (relating to the archaea)