archaeal

English

Etymology

From archaea +‎ -al.

Adjective

archaeal (not comparable)

  1. (microbiology) Relating to the archaea.
    • 2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 174:
      ‘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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