ELTWeekly Issue #18, Word of the week: extremophile

extremophile • ik-STREE-muh-fyle – noun

meaning: an organism that lives under extreme environmental conditions

example: “Cold-loving extremophiles could show us what kinds of creatures might live … in parts of the solar system previously thought uninhabitable.”

To know more about the word ‘extremophile’, please visit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Apr.01.2009