psychrophilic

English

Etymology

From psychro- +‎ -philic.

Adjective

psychrophilic (not comparable)

1. Especially of certain bacteria: capable of living at relatively low temperature.

   Synonyms: cryophilic, cryophilous

   Antonyms: cold-sensitive, cryosensitive, psychrosensitive

Derived terms

• piezopsychrophilic
• psychrophilicity

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: psykrofiilinen
• French: psychrophile (fr)
• German: psychrophil (de)
• Portuguese: psicrófilo

See also

• extremophile

Further reading

• psychrophilic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia