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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Extremophile
Synonyms for "extremophile"
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Translations
14 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- extremòfil noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 嗜極生物 /嗜极生物 noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Dutch
1 entries- extremofiel noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Finnish
1 entries- ekstremofiili noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
French
1 entries- extrêmophile noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Galician
1 entries- extremófilo noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Greek
2 entries- ακραιόφιλος noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
- ακρόφιλος noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Italian
1 entries- estremofilo noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Polish
1 entries- ekstremofil noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Portuguese
1 entries- extremófilo noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Russian
1 entries- экстремофи́л noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Spanish
1 entries- extremófilo noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Swedish
1 entries- extremofil noun (organism that lives under extreme conditions)
Sample sentences
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Lichens are 'extremophiles', organisms able to live, from our point of view, in other worlds.
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