"acidophile" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: acidophiles [plural]
Etymology: acid + -o- + -phile Etymology templates: {{af|en|acid|-o-|-phile}} acid + -o- + -phile Head templates: {{en-noun}} acidophile (plural acidophiles)
  1. An organism that lives and thrives under acidic conditions; a form of extremophile. Categories (topical): Ecology
    Sense id: en-acidophile-en-noun-en:organism Disambiguation of Ecology: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms interfixed with -o-, English terms suffixed with -phile Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms interfixed with -o-: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -phile: 50 50
  2. An organism that lives and thrives under acidic conditions; a form of extremophile.
    A plant that thrives in relatively acid soil.
    Categories (topical): Ecology
    Sense id: en-acidophile-en-noun-en:organism1 Disambiguation of Ecology: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms interfixed with -o-, English terms suffixed with -phile Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms interfixed with -o-: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -phile: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: acidophile body, nonacidophile Related terms: acidophil, acidophilia, acidophilic Translations (organism that thrives under acidic conditions): asidofiili (Finnish), acydofil [masculine] (Polish), acidófilo [masculine] (Portuguese), acidófilo [masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'organism that thrives under acidic conditions': 50 50

Inflected forms

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