The story
From translingual Archaea + -ol; the archaeols are Archaea homologues of diacylglycerols.
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archaeol
Today it means: Di-O-phytanylglycerol, a double ether of sn-1-glycerol where positions 2 and 3 are bound to phytanyl residues. Full definition →