Polyextremophile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An organism which can tolerate two or more extreme environmental factors.

    "Indeed, their ability to survive many different types of extreme qualify them as 'polyextremophiles'."

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"Indeed, their ability to survive many different types of extreme qualify them as 'polyextremophiles'."

Etymology

From poly- + extremophile.

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