extremophile

[Joel S. Berson]

Gee, there ought to be a nicely esoteric word from Greek that can be
used with "-phile" instead of "extreme".

Joel

At 7/9/2012 09:16 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Not in OED.
>
>http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-nasas-form-life-untrue-015324767.html :
>Rather than being a new form of life that thrives on arsenic, Science's
>statement summed up the latest studies by describing the bacterium as "a
>well-adapted extremophile that lives in a high-arsenic environment."
>
>And it can be applied more generally too.

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