The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usage examples of "aquaticus".
Emerald Pool, remarkably, was all these things, yet at least two types of living things, Sulpholobus acidocaldarius and Thermophilus aquaticus as they became known, found it congenial.
Because these organisms thrived, against all odds, in temperatures which would normally kill land-based bacteria, the biotech industry had great use for Thermus aquaticus, or “taq” for short.
However, the industrial enzymes developed from the Thermus aquaticus found at those sites had been long since patented, and the company for which he worked didn’t have Yemaya’s technological resources.