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PRONUNCIATION OF ACRITARCH

acritarch  [ˈækrɪˌtɑːk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACRITARCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Acritarch is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACRITARCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Acritarch

Acritarchs are small organic fossils, present from approximately 1,400 to 3,200 million years ago to the present. Their diversity reflects major ecological events such as the appearance of predation and the Cambrian explosion.

Definition of acritarch in the English dictionary

The definition of acritarch in the dictionary is a type of small fossil.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACRITARCH


arc
ɑːk
at.
ɑːk
autarch
ˈɔːtɑːk
bookmark
ˈbʊkˌmɑːk
Clark
klɑːk
dark
dɑːk
dat.
dɑːk
Denmark
ˈdɛnmɑːk
heptarch
ˈhɛptɑːk
Iraq
ɪˈrɑːk
Landtag
ˈlɑːntˌtɑːk
lat.
lɑːk
marc
mɑːk
mark
mɑːk
marque
mɑːk
mat.
mɑːk
park
pɑːk
pentarch
ˈpɛntɑːk
Plutarch
ˈpluːtɑːk
stark
stɑːk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACRITARCH

acrid
acridin
acridine
acridity
acridly
acridness
acriflavin
acriflavine
acriflavine hydrochloride
Acrilan
acrimonies
acrimonious
acrimoniously
acrimoniousness
acrimony
acritical
acroamatic
acroamatical
acrobat
acrobatic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACRITARCH

animal starch
applied research
arch
cornstarch
global search
job search
march
market research
marketing research
monarch
operational research
operations research
patriarch
research
search
starch
the Long March
triumphal arch
unstarch
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Synonyms and antonyms of acritarch in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «acritarch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACRITARCH

Find out the translation of acritarch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of acritarch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «acritarch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

疑源类
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acritarca
570 millions of speakers

English

acritarch
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

acritarch
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

acritarch
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

акритарх
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acritarch
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

acritarch
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

acritarches
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Acritarch
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

acritarch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

acritarch
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

acritarch
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Acritarch
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

acritarch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

acritarch
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शिश्निका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

acritarch
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

acritarch
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

acritarch
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

акритарх
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

acritarch
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

acritarch
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

acritarch
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

acritarch
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

acritarch
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of acritarch

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACRITARCH»

The term «acritarch» is used very little and occupies the 181.757 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACRITARCH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about acritarch

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACRITARCH»

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1
Paleopalynology: Second Edition
Earliest Phanerozoic (i.e., Cambrian) acritarch floras continue the trend to more diversity in size (25−200 m–with some giant forms that even exceed our accepted upper limit for palynomorphs of 500 m), but the most striking feature of early ...
Alfred Traverse, 2007
2
Ordovician of the World
The total acritarch diversities in South China increase until the suec/cus graptolite biozones indicating a major acritarch radiation in the Ordovician. The Ordovician acritarch origination curves also infer that this acritarch radiation event ...
Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, Isabel Rábano, Diego García-Bellido, 2011
3
Early Palaeozoic Biogeography and Palaeogeography:
Taking into account synonymies, there are at least 11 species in common with published North American and South American acritarch assemblages. The common, characteristic Middle Devonian species found in all three regions include ...
D.A.T. Harper, T. Servais, 2014
4
Middle and Upper Cambrian acritarch and trilobite zonation ...
Detailed descriptions of acritarchs and trilobites found in the Cambrian strata of the Avalon Peninsula of eastern Newfoundland.
F. Martin, William Thornton Dean, Geological Survey of Canada, 1988
5
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
Many monographic articles include a large number of new species, but most lack definitive biostratigraphic control. Because of the possibility oflarge numbers of synonymous species, it is difficult to establish acritarch diversity trends for Baltica.
B. D. Webby, Florentin Paris, Mary L. Droser, 2013
6
A Revised Correlation of the Cambrian Rocks in the British Isles
Cambrian acritarch zones (S. G. M) The Cambrian acritarch zones in Figures 3 and 4 are based on zonation schemes developed on the East European Platform (for the Terreneuvian Series and Series 2) and in eastern Newfoundland (for ...
A. W. A. Rushton, P. M. Brück, S. G. Molyneux, 2011
7
Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change and ...
Just prior to Cryogenian glaciations a marked decline in acritarch diversity is recorded. Nagy and Porter (2005) and Nagy et al. (2009) reported the occurrence of a Bavlinella faveolata-dominated, Chuaria-bearing, depauperate assemblage  ...
Claudio Gaucher, Alcides N. Sial, Galen P. Halverson, 2009
8
Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical ...
13.4. FIB-EM. Nanotomography: An. Acritarch-Based. Case. Study. The case study presented in the following sections of this chapter using FIB-EM nanotomography was originally published in Palaios (Schiffbauer and Xiao 2009 ); the ...
Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, Stephen Q. Dornbos, 2011
9
In Sight of the Suture: Palaeozoic Geology of the Isle of ...
A reassessment of Manx Group acritarchs, Isle of Man S. G. MOLYNEUX British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK Abstract: The biostratigraphy of acritarch assemblages from the Manx Group. Isle of Man, has been ...
N. H. Woodcock, 1999
10
Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
Hydrometallurgy 85:1–8 Acritarch EMMANUELLE J. JAVAUX Department of Geology, Paleobotany-PaleopalynologyMicropaleontology Research Unit, University of Lie`ge, Lie`ge, Belgium Keywords Organic-walled microfossils Definition An ...
Muriel Gargaud, Ricardo Amils, Henderson James Cleaves, 2011

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACRITARCH»

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Style Invitational Week 1129: Nobody uses spelling bee words? You …
See bit.ly/invite1128. THE SPELLING BEE WORDS FOR THE WEEK 1129 CONTEST. acritarch backfisch bayadere bouquetiere bruxellois «Washington Post, Jun 15»
2
Once Again, Indian American Duo Are Scripps Spelling Bee Champs
... five Indian Americans and two others in the process, missed on acritarch – a small organic fossil – spelling it with an o, rather than an i. «India West, Jun 15»
3
Video: Oklahoma boy dodges mom's kiss after finishing 3rd in …
He misspelled the word “acritarch” by one letter, spelling it “acrotarch.” Cole took to Twitter to claim Jacques Bailly, the contest's official ... «kfor.com, May 15»
4
Ginnie Graham: Surely, there are enough words to avoid spelling …
Also foreign to my computer is “acritarch,” which felled Norman student Cole Shafer-Ray by a single letter. He is runner-up. The 14-year-old, ... «Tulsa World, May 15»
5
3D Reconstruction Developed To Show Earliest Animals
In the Ediacaran period, bacteria, green algae, enigmatic acritarch and planktonic single-celled algae were common in the seas. The condition ... «Chinatopix, Aug 14»
6
The search is on for Earth's missing two billion years
[Nature Geoscience; images are an artist's conception of the primordial Earth, cyanobacteria, bubbles in the ocean, and an acritarch.]. «io9, Aug 10»

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