different between extremophile vs archaeon

English

Etymology

From extreme +? -o- +? -phile.

Noun

extremophile (plural extremophiles)

1. (ecology) An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 207:

     They had found the world's first extremophiles – organisms that could live in water that had previously been assumed to be much too hot or acid or choked with sulphur to bear life.

Translations

See also

• acidophile
• alkaliphile
• barophile / piezophile
• halophile
• hyperthermophile
• mesophile
• microaerophile
• polyextremophile
• psychrophile
• thermophile

English

Etymology

Scientific Latin, corresponding to a singular form of Archaea.

Noun

archaeon (plural archaeons or archaea)

1. A member of the kingdom Archaea; an archaebacterium. [from 20th c.]
   • 2020, Hannah Devlin, The Guardian, 15 January:

     Then, the theory goes, a rogue archaeon gobbled up a bacterium to create an entirely new type of cell that would go on to form the basis of all complex life on Earth, from plants to humans.

Synonyms

• archaebacterium

Translations

See also

• extremophile

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar?k?ae?.on/, [är?k?äe??n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar?ke.on/, [?r?k???n]

Noun

archaeon n (genitive archae?); second declension

1. archaeon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).