cryophilous
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cryophilous (comparative more cryophilous, superlative most cryophilous)
- (zoology) Thriving at a low temperature.
- Synonyms: cryophilic, psychrophilic
- Antonym: cryophobic
- 2016 January 6, “Vegetation and Climate Change during the Last Deglaciation in the Great Khingan Mountain, Northeastern China”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- This warming is also implied by the decreasing percentage of cryophilous pollen taxa like Ericaceae and climbing trend of the δ 18 O curve in other paleoclimate records of the East Asia [sic] (Fig 6), when the summer insolation is increasing.