Archaeal
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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.’"
Example
More examples"‘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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