Associations to the word «Halophile»

Wiktionary

HALOPHILE, noun. (biology) an organism that lives and thrives in an environment of high salinity, often requiring such an environment; a form of extremophile

Dictionary definition

HALOPHILE, noun. Archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope