Usually means: Thrives in extremely cold environments.
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  1. psychrophilic: Merriam-Webster
  2. psychrophilic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. psychrophilic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. psychrophilic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. psychrophilic: Wordnik
  6. psychrophilic: Wiktionary
  7. psychrophilic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. psychrophilic: Dictionary.com
  9. Psychrophilic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. psychrophilic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. psychrophilic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. psychrophilic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. psychrophilic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. psychrophilic: Medical dictionary

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

Similar:
piezopsychrophilic, cryophilic, psychrotrophic, mesophilic, thermophilic, psychotrophic, acidothermophilic, thermophillic, extremotolerant, bacteriophilous, more...

Opposite:
thermophilic, mesophilic, thermotolerant

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Similar:
piezopsychrophilic, cryophilic, psychrotrophic, mesophilic, thermophilic, psychotrophic, acidothermophilic, thermophillic, extremotolerant, bacteriophilous, more...

Opposite:
thermophilic, mesophilic, thermotolerant



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