different between extremophile vs extremophilic

English

From extreme +? -o- +? -phile.

extremophile (plural extremophiles)

(ecology) An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 207:
  They had found the world's first extremophiles – organisms that could live in water that had previously been assumed to be much too hot or acid or choked with sulphur to bear life.

extremophile +? -ic

extremophilic (comparative more extremophilic, superlative most extremophilic)

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