Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various organisms, especially certain archaea, bacteria, and fungi, that thrive at low temperatures between about 10°C and 20°C.
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- noun An
organism that canlive andthrive attemperatures muchlower thannormal ; a form ofextremophile .
Etymologies
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psychro- + -phile
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a so-called "psychrophile" or a cold-loving bacterium that is known to leave a reddish tinge on the sea ice it sometimes inhabits in polar regions.
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