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Baikalian
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English
Etymology
From en Baikal -ian.
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia.
en 2016 Valentina V. Parfenova; Natalia L. Belkova; Olga S. Pestunova; Mariya Yu. Suslova; Olga N. Pavlova Microbiological Monitoring of Lake Baikal Lothar Mueller; Askhad K. Sheudshen; Frank Eulenstein Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia Springer Water Cham Springer Science+Business Media Springer 9783319244075 ffbuCgAAQBAJ 138 Baikalian 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).
Related terms
en Baikalia
Proper noun
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en geology An age from 850 to 650 million years ago, a subdivision of the Proterozoic.