cryophilous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Thriving at a low temperature.
Example Sentences
- "This warming is also implied by the decreasing percentage of cryophilous pollen taxa like Ericaceae and climbing trend of the δ 18 O curve in other paleoclimate records of the East Asia ^([sic]) (Fig 6), when the summer insolation is increasing."
Etymology
From cryo- + -philous.
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cryophobic