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Extremophile - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun extremophile

is an organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.

extremophile

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biology) 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.

    See also

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

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    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.