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Extremotroph
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<p>An extremotroph (from Latin <i><i>extremus</i></i> meaning "extreme" and Greek <i><i>troph</i></i> (τροφ) meaning "food") is an organism that feeds on matter that is not typically considered to be food to most life on Earth. "These <a href="/facts/Anthropocentrism/P9uozsxS">anthropocentric</a> definitions that we make of <a href="/facts/Extremophile/JGk1eYCk">extremophily</a> and extremotrophy focus on a single environmental extreme but many extremophiles may fall into multiple categories, for example, organisms living inside hot rocks deep under the Earth's surface." </p>