extremophile

extremophile

See also: extrêmophile

English

Etymology

From extreme +‎ -o- +‎ -phile.

Noun

extremophile (plural extremophiles)

1. (ecology) An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 207:

     They had found the world's first extremophiles – organisms that could live in water that had previously been assumed to be much too hot or acid or choked with sulphur to bear life.

Translations

organism that lives under extreme conditions

Catalan: extremòfil m Chinese: Mandarin: 嗜極生物／嗜极生物 (shìjí shēngwù) Dutch: extremofiel (nl) m Finnish: ekstremofiili (fi) French: extrêmophile (fr) Greek: ακρόφιλος m (akrófilos) Portuguese: extremófilo m Russian: экстремофи́л (ru) m (ekstremofíl) Spanish: extremófilo m Swedish: extremofil c

See also

• acidophile
• alkaliphile
• barophile / piezophile
• halophile
• hyperthermophile
• mesophile
• microaerophile
• polyextremophile
• psychrophile
• thermophile