- Polyextremophile
A polyextremophile ("to like several extremes" in more-or-less Greek) is an organism which combines "several"
extremophilic features. For example, a polyextremophile living at the summit of a mountain in theAtacama Desert might be aradioresistant xerophile , apsychrophile , and anoligotroph .ee also
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Deinococcus radiodurans
*Extremophile
*Tardigrade External links
* [http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/polyextremophile.html Polyextremophile on David Darling's "Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight"]
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