psychrophile

English

Etymology

From psychro- +‎ -phile.

Noun

psychrophile (plural psychrophiles)

1. An organism that can live and thrive at temperatures much lower than normal; a form of extremophile.

Related terms

• Category:English terms prefixed with psychro-

Translations

type of organism

• Finnish: psykrofiili
• Greek: ψυχρόφιλος (el) (psychrófilos)
• Portuguese: psicrófilo m

See also

• psychrophile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thermophile
• psychrotrophic

French

Etymology

psychro- +‎ -phile

Adjective

psychrophile (plural psychrophiles)

1. (botany) psychrophilous

   Antonym: thermophile

Related terms

• psychrophyte

Further reading

• Jouy, Alain & De Foucault, Bruno, 2019. Dictionnaire illustré de botanique. Biotope Éditions, Mèze, →ISBN., p. 231.
• “psychrophile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Paronyms

• psychophile

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

psychrophile

1. inflection of psychrophil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Adjective

psychrophile

1. vocative masculine singular of psychrophilus