osmophile
Meanings
noun
- Any organism that is adapted to living in aqueous environments with high solute concentrations (salt, sugar, alcohol), and resisting internal desiccation caused by the osmotic transport of water outside of their cells
Word forms
Etymology
From osmo- + -phile.
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