ACRITARCH


Meaning of ACRITARCH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈa-kri-ˌtärk ]

noun

Etymology: Greek akritos uncertain (from a- + kritos, verbal of krinein to decide) + archē beginning — more at certain , arch-

Date: 1963

: any of a group of fossil one-celled marine planktonic organisms of uncertain and possibly various taxonomic affinities held to represent the earliest known eukaryotes

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