psychrotrophic
/ˌsaɪkɹəˈtɹəʊfɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Describing microorganisms that thrive in a cold environment.
Example Sentences
- "One of the main reasons fridge temperatures are recommend to be set at 5ºC is because of listeria. Listeria is a food poisoning bacterium that is psychrotrophic – in other words it likes cold temperatures. From the growth models, we know that listeria grows nearly twice as fast at 8°C as it does at 5°C, hence the recommended 5ºC, which helps keep us safe from listeria."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more psychrotrophic (comparative)
most psychrotrophic (superlative)