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Meaning of "halophily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALOPHILY

halophily  [hæˈlɒfɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALOPHILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Halophily is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HALOPHILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of halophily in the English dictionary

The definition of halophily in the dictionary is the ability to live in or a predisposition to live in a salty environment.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HALOPHILY


acarophily
ˌækəˈrɒfɪlɪ
anemophily
ˌænɪˈmɒfɪlɪ
anisophylly
ˌænaɪˈsɒfɪlɪ
arctophily
ɑːkˈtɒfɪlɪ
bibliophily
ˌbɪblɪˈɒfɪlɪ
cartophily
kɑːˈtɒfɪlɪ
entomophily
ˌɛntəˈmɒfɪlɪ
hydrophily
haɪˈdrɒfɪlɪ
malacophily
ˌmæləˈkɒfɪlɪ
monophyly
məˈnɒfɪlɪ
myophily
maɪˈɒfɪlɪ
myrmecophily
ˌmɜːmɪˈkɒfɪlɪ
ornithophily
ˌɔːnɪˈθɒfɪlɪ
photophily
fəʊˈtɒfɪlɪ
psychophily
saɪˈkɒfɪlɪ
sclerophylly
sklɪərˈɒfɪlɪ
scripophily
skrɪˈpɒfɪlɪ
timbrophily
tɪmˈbrɒfɪlɪ
toxophily
tɒkˈsɒfɪlɪ
xerophily
zɪəˈrɒfɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALOPHILY

halogen lamp
halogenate
halogenation
halogenoid
halogenous
halogeton
haloid
halomorphic
halon
haloperidol
halophile
halophilic
halophilous
halophobe
halophyte
halophytic
halophytism
halosere
halothane
haloumi

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALOPHILY

gushily
healthily
lengthily
maximaphily
notaphily
oenophily
patchily
pithily
praiseworthily
raunchily
sketchily
stealthily
symphily
techily
toothily
touchily
trashily
unhealthily
unworthily
worthily

Synonyms and antonyms of halophily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «halophily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALOPHILY

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The translations of halophily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «halophily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

halophily
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

halophily
570 millions of speakers

English

halophily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

halophily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

halophily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

halophily
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

halophily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

halophily
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

halophily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Halofil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

halophily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

halophily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

halophily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Halophily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

halophily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

halophily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अधाशीपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

halophily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

halophily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

halophily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

halophily
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

halophily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

halophily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

halophily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halophily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halophily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of halophily

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALOPHILY»

The term «halophily» is barely ever used and occupies the 211.099 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALOPHILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «halophily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «halophily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about halophily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALOPHILY»

Discover the use of halophily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to halophily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Biology of Halophilic Bacteria
With the exception of nonhalophilic microorganisms, most microbial cells are 0- 8493-884 1 -4/93/S0.00 + $.50 C 1993 by CRC Press. 1nc. 211 TABLE 1. Defining the Degree of Halophily Degree of halophily Osmotic Adaptation in Halophilic ...
Russell H. Vreeland, Lawrence I. Hochstein, 1992
2
Adaptation to Life at High Salt Concentrations in Archaea, ...
Although halotolerance and halophily according to these definitions are uncommon amongst fungi, truly halophilic species do exist. On the other hand, xerotolerance is observed more frequently. Fungi able to grow with little available water ...
Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Aharon Oren, Ana Plemenitaš, 2006
3
Biology of Marine Fungi
Halophily. in. Fungi. Over the years, several definitions for the description of the diverse abilities of fungi to adapt to a wide range of salt concentrations have been proposed. For these fungi that prefer reduced aw, the most commonly used  ...
Chandralata Raghukumar, 2012
4
Polyextremophiles: Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress
Psychromonas ingrahamii, for example, has been found growing in temperatures as low as —12 °C and salinities as high as 20 % NaCl (Auman et al., M. Thus, some degree of mild to moderate halophily is typical of psychrophiles, especially  ...
Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren, Helga Stan-Lotter, 2013
5
Origins: Genesis, Evolution and Diversity of Life
Realizing that "on a first view there is apparently little correlation between taxonomy and halophily", the authors provided a survey that mainly centered on the Proteobacteria and the Firmicutes. The conclusions obtained were: 1.
Joseph Seckbach, 2004
6
Water on Mars and Life
12.1.5 Halophily and Osmophily - Is There a Difference? Osmophily refers to the osmotic aspects of life at high salt concentrations, especially turgor pressure, cellular dehydration and desiccation. Halophily refers to the ionic requirements for ...
Tetsuya Tokano, 2005
7
General and applied aspects of halophilic microorganisms
HALOPHILY, TAXONOMY, PHYLOGENY AND NOMENCLATURE Hans G. Triiper, Jflrg Severin, Axel Wohlfarth, Ewald Muller and Erwin A. Galinski Institut fiir Mikrobiologie & Biotechnologie Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat ...
Francisco Rodríguez-Valera, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division, 1991
8
Microbiology of Oceans and Estuaries
The genetic explanation of halophily in bacteria is related to the more acidic amino-acids in the membrane protein of the halophils. The high potassium requirement is required to activate the intracellular enzymes of halophils, and this ion is ...
‎1967
9
na
It is possible to correlate anaerobiosis with the presence of gene 1 and/or 3; however, it does not enable a prediction of whether organism (f) is anaerobic The presence or absence of no genets) correlates positively or negatively wilh halophily.
10
The Prokaryotes: Vol. 2: Ecophysiology and Biochemistry
Also important is the conjoining, in many alkaliphiles, of the constraints of thermophily or halophily or both with alkaliph- ily. Thus, the mature form of the a- amylase from haloalkaliphilic Natronococcus sp. Ah-36 was deduced to have a very ...
Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, 2006

REFERENCE
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