thaumarchaea
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the phylum Thaumarchaeota of archaebacteria, or the phylum as a whole.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Archaea that contain these genes are now placed within a separate phylogenetic group, the thaumarchaea."
- "Three exceptions to the bacterial dominance are noteworthy, having increased with the upwelling: Nitrosopumilus maritimus, a thaumarchaea; Thalassiosira pseudonana, a centric diatom; and Ostreococcus lucimarinus, a picoeukaryote (Fig 3, S2 Table)."
- "Previous studies have suggested that, like all microbes, thaumarchaea are infected by viruses and that viral predation has a profound impact on thaumarchaeal functioning and mortality, thereby regulating global biogeochemical cycles."