Baikalian

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adjective

Of or pertaining to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia.

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Meanings

adjectiveBaikalian (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia.

    One of the dominant groups of Baikalian microorganisms consists of bacteria which are able to switch into an uncultivable state when adapting to the extreme conditions of the lake (Belkova 2004).

    2016, Valentina V. Parfenova, Natalia L. Belkova, Olga S. Pestunova, Mariya Yu. Suslova, Olga N. Pavlova, “Microbiological Monitoring of Lake Baikal”, in Lothar Mueller, Askhad K. Sheudshen, Frank Eulenstein, editors, Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia (Springer Water), Cham: Springer, →ISBN, page 138
proper nounthe Baikalian
  1. geographyAn age from 850 to 650 million years ago, a subdivision of the Proterozoic.

Origin

From Baikal + -ian.

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