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extremophiles

extremophiles is the plural of extremophile.

Meaning of extremophile

Noun

extremophile (plural extremophiles)

  1. Any of many organisms that live under extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, salinity, etc; many are autotrophs; some are commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
    • 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.2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 207

Questions about extremophiles

What is extremophiles the plural of?
Extremophiles is the plural of extremophile.

Words near extremophiles in the dictionary

  1. extremogram
  2. extremograms
  3. extremolyte
  4. extremolytes
  5. extremophile
  6. extremophiles
  7. extremophilia
  8. extremophilic
  9. extremophilous
  10. extremophily
  11. extremophyte

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