NOUN | animal | archeobacteria, archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria | considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae |
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Meaning | Considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae. | |
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Synonyms | archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria | |
Member of | division Archaebacteria | In some classifications considered a kingdom |
Narrower | halophile, halophil | archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival |
methanogen | archaebacteria found in anaerobic environments such as animal intestinal tracts or sediments or sewage and capable of producing methane | |
thermoacidophile | archaebacteria that thrive in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures | |
Broader | moneran, moneron | organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis |
Spanish | archaeobacteria | |
Catalan | archaeobacteria |
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