Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In bacteriology, heat-loving: applied to the bacteria which require high temperatures for their development.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Heat-loving; -- applied especially to microorganisms such as certain bacteria, fungi and algae, which grow best at temperatures above 40° C (e.g. between 50° and 60°), and in some cases at temperatures that would kill ordinary microorganisms. They are found in naturally hot locations, such as at hot springs or the thermal vents at the ocean bottom.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, or relating to a thermophile
  • adjective living and thriving at relatively high temperatures

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Examples

  • Lambowitz and Mohr's investigation of introns in T. elongatus may also, unexpectedly, prove an enormous boon to researchers who are trying to use other high-temperature ( "thermophilic") bacteria to improve the efficiency of biofuels.

    Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment 2010

  • "thermophilic," a word that means "likes heat" but one that Foley had never heard before, she asked for the language of origin.

    Dose.ca Music briefs Laura Stone 2010

  • If warming occurs within the Barents Sea over the next hundred years, thermophilic species (i.e., those capable of living within a wide temperature range) will become more frequent.

    Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota 2009

  • IOW, why would you argue that the LUCA was not a gram-positive thermophilic bacteria, as Ciccarelli et al. suggest (please site why you think their conclusions are unjustified).

    But it's not Science! 2006

  • Vermicomposting is the breakdown of organic material that, in contrast to microbial composting, involves the joint action of different species of earthworms (not all earthworms are composting worms) and microorganisms and does not involve a thermophilic (i.e., high heat) stage.

    Vermicompost 2008

  • IOW, why would you argue that the LUCA was not a gram-positive thermophilic bacteria, as Ciccarelli et al. suggest (please site why you think their conclusions are unjustified).

    But it's not Science! 2006

  • The nearby spectacular Valley of the Geysers has 20 large geysers, over 100 hot springs, some with thermophilic algae, pulsating water funnels, mud cauldrons, poisonous miasmas, fumaroles, cascades, turquoise lakes and multicolored algae fields.

    Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation 2008

  • This particular presentation of the data suggests that the last universal common ancestor was a gram-positive thermophilic bacteria.

    But it's not Science! 2006

  • IOW, why would you argue that the LUCA was not a gram-positive thermophilic bacteria, as Ciccarelli et al. suggest (please site why you think their conclusions are unjustified).

    But it's not Science! 2006

  • There are various ways of composting — aerobic static piles (non-interventionary), aerobic windrows (interventionary), using worms (vermicomposting, which is in fact a different type of process that does not involve the thermophilic stages), etc.

    Composting 2007

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