A microorganism growing at lower than the usual temperature (> 20 C)
psychrotroph A microorganism that can grow at low temperatures but grows optimally between 15 degrees and 20 degrees Celsius. Related cold, frost; freezing units of words: algid-; cheimo-, chimo-; crymo-, krymo-; cryo-, kryo-; frigo-; gel-; pago-; rhigo-.
a microorganism that grows best at cool temperatures, typically between about 4 °C and 25 °C, with optimum growth at about 20 °C