NOUN
- an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals
How To Use poikilotherm In A Sentence
- As evidenced by the articles in this volume, a recent increase in interest in the mating systems of poikilothermic vertebrates has focused primarily on fishes, a few amphibians, and squamate reptiles.
- Inconsistencies and nonparallelisms abound: cisatlantic is in but not cisalpine; tramontane but not cismontane; poikilothermal but not homoiothermal. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2
- Predominantly this is because they concluded that – in view of its elongate shape and occurrence in cold waters – Caddy must be poikilothermic. Archive 2006-09-01
- Hogben & Kirk were trying to demonstrate that the body temperatures of animals like slugs and earthworms whose external surfaces are always wet are not necessarily in equilibrium with the temperature of their surroundings, despite the fact that they are poikilothermic or cold-blooded. How to take a slug's temperature and what you can learn from it
- Little is known about the physiological time of poikilothermic animals and we know nothing about the physiological time of modular organisms.
- This is distinct from poikilotherms, such as reptiles and amphibians, whose body temperature is just above the ambient temperature, and varies with it.
- Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures adapt automatically to changes in their environment, with - out their noticing. Boiling a frog
- On the positive side, there is substantial evidence that poikilotherms have lower metabolic rates and longer life spans at cooler temperatures (reviewed by FINCH 1990; ARKING 1998).
- The 10-fold seasonal differences in FMR were reasonable for an ectothermic poikilotherm.
- Because amphibians are poikilothermic, this unequal geographic distribution might have led to shorter generation times and higher metabolic rates in the evolution of neobatrachians.
