[1940–45; cryo- + -philic]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: airlift, blockbuster, debrief, redline, snorkelcryo- is a combining form meaning “icy cold,” “frost,” used in the formation of compoundwords. Other words that use the affix cryo- include: cryobiology, cryolite, cryonics, cryopreservation, cryotron; -philic is a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -phile. Other words that use the affix -philic include: hydrophilic, lipophilic, lyophilic, mesophilic, nucleophilic
Examples of 'cryophilic' in a sentence
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The direct impact of warming affects mainly the most cryophilic species.
Yuriy Kobiv 2018, 'Trends in Population Size of Rare Plant Species in the Alpine Habitats of the UkrainianCarpathians under Climate Change', Diversityhttp://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/10/3/62. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cryophilic algae thrive in liquid water within snow and ice in alpine and polar regions worldwide.
Nao Hisakawa, Steven D. Quistad, Eric R. Hester, Daria Martynova, Heather Maughan,Enric Sala, Maria V. Gavrilo, Forest Rohwer 2015, 'Metagenomic and satellite analyses of red snow in the Russian Arctic', PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/1491.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)