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petrophilic

/ˌpɛtɹəˈfɪlɪk/

petrophilic adjective: thriving in rocky environments.

Adjective

petrophilic (comparative more petrophilic, superlative most petrophilic)

  1. Thriving in rocky environments.
  2. Able to digest petroleum byproducts.
    • One of the larger organisations, CoRenewal, has been conducting reserach into the ability of fungi to detoxify the poisonous byproducts of crude oil estraction left behind by Chevron's twenty-six-year operation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In partnership with Ecuador's National Institute for...2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 207

Forms of petrophilic

comparativemore petrophilic
superlativemost petrophilic

Origin of petrophilic

From petro- + philic.

Questions about petrophilic

What does petrophilic mean?
Petrophilic means thriving in rocky environments.
What part of speech is petrophilic?
Petrophilic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce petrophilic?
Petrophilic is pronounced /ˌpɛtɹəˈfɪlɪk/.

Words near petrophilic in the dictionary

  1. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
  2. petropedetid
  3. petropedetids
  4. petrophile
  5. petrophiles
  6. petrophilic
  7. petrophilous
  8. petrophysical
  9. petrophysically
  10. petrophysicist
  11. petrophysicists

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