"extremophile" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: extremophiles [plural]
Etymology: From extreme + -o- + -phile. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|extreme|-o-|-phile}} extreme + -o- + -phile Head templates: {{en-noun}} extremophile (plural extremophiles)
  1. (ecology) An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions. Wikipedia link: extremophile Categories (topical): Ecology Translations (organism that lives under extreme conditions): extremòfil [masculine] (Catalan), 嗜極生物 (Chinese Mandarin), 嗜极生物 (shìjí shēngwù) (Chinese Mandarin), extremofiel [masculine] (Dutch), ekstremofiili (Finnish), extrêmophile (French), extremófilo [masculine] (Galician), ακρόφιλος (akrófilos) [masculine] (Greek), estremofilo [masculine] (Italian), ekstremofil [masculine] (Polish), extremófilo [masculine] (Portuguese), экстремофи́л (ekstremofíl) [masculine] (Russian), extremófilo [masculine] (Spanish), extremofil [common-gender] (Swedish)

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