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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for February 18, 1999
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extremophile [n. ik-STREEM-uh-fyl]
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An extremophile is a life form that lives in conditions that are so
severe that they would kill other kinds of life. There are
extremophile life forms that grow in boiling water, and others that
thrive in caustic acid, or under pressures that would crush other
life forms.
The word is made of two parts, extreme and the suffix -phile.
Extreme (as an adjective) means most remote, greatest or highest,
excessive in degree, or very intense. It comes through Old French,
from the Latin extremus (outermost limit of something), from exter
(outward). That root also gave us external, exterior, and the prefix
extra-. The -phile part is from the Greek philos (beloved), and
appears in words like these:
thermophile: an extremophile that loves high temperatures
bibliophile: lover of books
philanthropist: benevolent lover of people
philosopher: lover of wisdom
Today's Cool Fact is about extremophiles:
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