Archaeal

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to the archaea. not-comparable

    "‘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.’"

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"‘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.’"

Etymology

From archaea + -al.

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