mesophile

[mez-uh-fahyl, -fil, mes-, mee-zuh-, -suh-]Bacteriology

adjective

mesophilic.

noun

a mesophilic bacterium.

Origin of mesophile

First recorded in 1925–30; meso- + -phile

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