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- noun Plural form of
extremophile .
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Examples
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They think the lake might be a haven for so-called "extremophiles" - bacteria and other single-celled organisms that have evolved to live in conditions in which other life forms would struggle to survive, such as darkness, or extreme temperatures, or salinity.
The Guardian World News Alok Jha 2012
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As surface oceans came and went, underground ponds could have persisted long enough to give rise to "extremophiles" -- like the hardy bacteria at the bottom of Earth's oceans that thrive on volcanic heat.
Waterworld 2007
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The toughness of these bugs -- which are types of bacteria or archaea called extremophiles -- has long attracted researchers hoping to put them to work in industrial settings such as environmental cleanups or fuel production.
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The toughness of these bugs -- which are types of bacteria or archaea called extremophiles -- has long attracted researchers hoping to put them to work in industrial settings such as environmental cleanups or fuel production.
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Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an oversized effect on our human world.
Levi Novey: How Extremophiles Might Help Us Save the World 2009
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Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an oversized effect on our human world.
Levi Novey: How Extremophiles Might Help Us Save the World 2009
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And this is a new brand of life that we now collectively call extremophiles (ph), lovers of extreme environments.
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They are also home to bugs called extremophiles (ph) that live in high temperatures and extreme conditions of acidity or salinity.
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Its surface is probably about 400 degrees Fahrenheit, twice as hot as any earthly organism - like the creatures called extremophiles that astrobiologists find in geysers and deep, hot mines - could survive.
SFGate: Top News Stories David Perlman 2010
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Its surface is probably about 400 degrees Fahrenheit, twice as hot as any earthly organism - like the creatures called extremophiles that astrobiologists find in geysers and deep, hot mines - could survive.
SFGate: Top News Stories David Perlman 2010
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