Usually means: Organisms thriving in extreme conditions.
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  4. extremophile: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. Extremophile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. extremophile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extremophile)

noun:  (ecology) An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.

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