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osmophile

osmophile noun: any organism that is adapted to living in aqueous environments with high solute concentrations (salt, sugar, alcohol), and resisting internal desiccation caused by the osmotic transport of water outside of their cells.

Noun

osmophile (plural osmophiles)

  1. Any organism that is adapted to living in aqueous environments with high solute concentrations (salt, sugar, alcohol), and resisting internal desiccation caused by the osmotic transport of water outside of their cells

osmophile meaning in Tamil

osmophile in Tamil

மிகுநீர்மைத் தாங்கும் நுரைப்பான்

Forms of osmophile

pluralosmophiles

Origin of osmophile

From osmo- + -phile.

Questions about osmophile

What does osmophile mean?
Osmophile means any organism that is adapted to living in aqueous environments with high solute concentrations (salt, sugar, alcohol), and resisting internal desiccation caused by the osmotic transport of water outside of their cells.
What is osmophile in Tamil?
Osmophile in Tamil is மிகுநீர்மைத் தாங்கும் நுரைப்பான். See Osmophile meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is osmophile?
Osmophile is a noun.
What is the plural of osmophile?
The plural of osmophile is osmophiles.

Words near osmophile in the dictionary

  1. osmometry
  2. Osmon
  3. Osmond
  4. Osmondthorpe
  5. Osmons
  6. osmophile
  7. osmophiles
  8. osmophilia
  9. osmophilic
  10. osmophily
  11. osmophobia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: osmophile (page history and authors); osmophile (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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