poikilothermy en · NOUN
Meanings
- (uncountable) The quality of having a body temperature that varies or fluctuates, depending on the temperature of the environment; cold-bloodedness.
Coordinates
homeothermy · warm-bloodedness · homoiothermy
Hypernyms
Relateds
endothermic · naked mole rat · homotherm · ectothermic · heterothermy · homoiotherm · Phodopus sungorus · heterotherm · thermoconformer · ectothermy · metabolism · thermal homeostasis · poikilotherm · Heterocephalus glaber · daily torpor · poikilothermous · bradymetabolism · homeotherm · tachymetabolism · heterothermia · poikilothermic · heterothermic · warm-blooded · homoiothermous · poikilothermal · Djungarian hamster · thermoregulation · endotherm · endothermy · ectotherm
Synonyms
poikilothermism · cold-bloodedness
Translations (3)
vo cenavam (the quality of having a variable body temperature depending on the environment) · de Kaltblütigkeit (the quality of having a variable body temperature depending on the environment) · de Poikilothermie (the quality of having a variable body temperature depending on the environment)