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Word: Archaeon
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1990s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Inferred singular from Archaea; compare -on
Definition:
A member of the taxon Archaea of prokaryotic organisms; an archaebacterium.
Variant Forms:
- archeon
