Usually means: Organisms that thrive in high salinity.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. halophile: Merriam-Webster
  2. halophile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. halophile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. halophile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. halophile: Vocabulary.com
  6. halophile: Wiktionary
  7. halophile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. halophile: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. halophile: Dictionary.com
  10. Halophile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. halophile: Rhymezone
  12. halophile: FreeDictionary.org
  13. halophile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. halophile: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halophile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. halophile: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Halophile: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. halophile: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. halophile: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halophile: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (halophile)

noun:  (biology) An organism that lives and thrives in an environment of high salinity, often requiring such an environment; a form of extremophile

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