📚 noun • entry_id 28291
extremophile
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extremófilo
Any of many organisms that live under extreme conditions of temperature, pressure, salinity, etc; many are autotrophs; some are commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
Lichens are 'extremophiles', organisms able to live, from our point of view, in other worlds.
They had found the world's first extremophiles – organisms that could live in water that had previously been assumed to be much too hot or acid or choked with sulphur to bear life.
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