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hyperextremophiles

hyperextremophiles is the plural of hyperextremophile.

Meaning of hyperextremophile

Noun

hyperextremophile (plural hyperextremophiles)

  1. An organism that thrives at higher temperatures than typical extremophiles, which in turn thrive at higher temperatures than ordinary life.
    • Prokarya hyperextremophiles thrive at higher levels of temperature and in hypersalinity than the moderate extremophiles.2000, Joseph Seckbach, “Extremophilies as Models for Extraterrestrial Life”, in ASP Conference Series, volume 213, →Bibcode

Questions about hyperextremophiles

What is hyperextremophiles the plural of?
Hyperextremophiles is the plural of hyperextremophile.

Words near hyperextremophiles in the dictionary

  1. hyperextensions
  2. hyperextensive
  3. hyperextensor
  4. hyperextensors
  5. hyperextremophile
  6. hyperextremophiles
  7. hyperexuberance
  8. hyperface
  9. hyperfaces
  10. hyperfacilitation
  11. hyperfactorial

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