extremophile

參見：extrêmophile

英語

詞源

源自extreme +‎ -o- +‎ -phile。

名詞

extremophile (複數 extremophiles)

1. 嗜極生物
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 207:

     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.

參見

• acidophile
• alkaliphile
• barophile / piezophile
• halophile
• hyperthermophile
• mesophile
• microaerophile
• polyextremophile
• psychrophile
• thermophile