acidophilic
A Dictionary of Zoology | Date: 1999
acidophilic 1. Refers to the propensity of a cell, its components, or its products to become stained by an acidic dye.
2. Applied to an organism that inhabits acid environments.
© A Dictionary of Zoology 1999, originally published by Oxford University Press 1999.
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