psychrotrophic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From psychro- (“cold”) + -trophic (“growth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]psychrotrophic (comparative more psychrotrophic, superlative most psychrotrophic)
- (biology) Describing microorganisms that thrive in a cold environment.
- 2018 January 15, Kaarin Goodburn, “How chilled is your fridge?”, in Food Standards Agency[1]:
- One of the main reasons fridge temperatures are recommend to be set at 5ºC is because of listeria. Listeria is a food poisoning bacterium that is psychrotrophic – in other words it likes cold temperatures. From the growth models, we know that listeria grows nearly twice as fast at 8°C as it does at 5°C, hence the recommended 5ºC, which helps keep us safe from listeria.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]biology: describing microorganisms that thrive in a cold environment
|