circumneutral en · ADJ
Etymology
From circum- + neutral.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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: