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.’

Derived terms

• lokiarchaeal
• methanoarchaeal
• nanoarchaeal
• nonarchaeal

Translations

relating to the archaea

• Portuguese: arqueobacteriano