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PRONUNCIATION OF POIKILOTHERM

poikilotherm  [ˌpɔɪkɪləʊˈθɜːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POIKILOTHERM

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conjunction
determiner
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Poikilotherm is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POIKILOTHERM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

poikilotherm

Poikilotherm

A poikilotherm is an organism whose internal temperature varies considerably. It is the opposite of a homeotherm, an organism which maintains thermal homeostasis. Usually the variation is a consequence of variation in the ambient environmental temperature. Many terrestrial ectotherms are poikilothermic. However some ectotherms remain in temperature-constant environments to the point that they are actually able to maintain a constant internal temperature. It is this distinction that often makes the term "poikilotherm" more useful than the vernacular "cold-blooded", which is sometimes used to refer to ectotherms more generally. Poikilothermic animals include types of vertebrate animals, specifically fish, amphibians, and reptiles, as well as a large number of invertebrate animals. The Naked mole rat is the only mammal that is currently thought to be poikilothermic.

Definition of poikilotherm in the English dictionary

The definition of poikilotherm in the dictionary is an organism with poikilothermic qualities.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POIKILOTHERM


ectotherm
ˈektəʊˌθɜːm
endotherm
ˌɛndəʊˈθɜːm
eurytherm
ˈjʊərɪˌθɜːm
geotherm
ˈdʒiːəʊˌθɜːm
homeotherm
ˈhɒmɪəʊˌθɜːm
homoeotherm
ˈhɒmɪəʊˌθɜːm
homoiotherm
ˈhɒmɔɪəʊˌθɜːm
isogeotherm
ˌaɪsəʊˈdʒiːəʊˌθɜːm
isotherm
ˈaɪsəʊˌθɜːm
stenotherm
ˈstɛnəʊˌθɜːm
therm
θɜːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POIKILOTHERM

poi
poi dance
poignance
poignancy
poignant
poignantly
poikilitic
poikilocyte
poikilothermal
poikilothermic
poikilothermism
poikilothermy
poilu
poinciana
poind
poinder
poinsettia
point
point after

WORDS THAT END LIKE POIKILOTHERM

berm
bioherm
ectoderm
endoderm
full term
full-term
germ
half term
herm
jail term
long term
long-term
medium-term
midterm
perm
preterm
short-term
sperm
term
wheat germ

Synonyms and antonyms of poikilotherm in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «poikilotherm» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POIKILOTHERM

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The translations of poikilotherm from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «poikilotherm» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

冷血动物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poikilotherm
570 millions of speakers

English

poikilotherm
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

poikilotherm
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متغير الحرارة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пойкилотермных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

poikilotherm
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

poikilotherm
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poikilotherm
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Poikilotherm
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

poikilotherm
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

変温動物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

poikilotherm
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Poikilotherm
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

poikilotherm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

poikilotherm
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोइकिलोथर्म
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

değişkensıcaklı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poikilotherm
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poikilotherm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пойкілотермних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poikilotherm
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

poikilotherm
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

poikilotherm
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

poikilotherm
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

poikilotherm
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of poikilotherm

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POIKILOTHERM»

The term «poikilotherm» is used very little and occupies the 151.395 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POIKILOTHERM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about poikilotherm

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POIKILOTHERM»

Discover the use of poikilotherm in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to poikilotherm and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Essentials of Animal Physiology
The temperature which kills a poikilotherm is not fixed and depends upon its previous thermal history. Acclimatization can. however, alter the lethal limits to a small extent. It is generally believed that acclimatization involves either the synthesis ...
S. C. Rastogi, 1988
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Physiological Adaptations in Vertebrates: Respiration: ...
Aspects. of. Poikilotherm. Myocardial. Function. During. Hypoxia. HANS GESSER University of Aarhus Aarhus, Denmark I. Introduction Cellular adaptation of vertebrate heart muscle to conditions such as oxygen availability is of particular ...
Alan Hargens, 1991
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Poikilotherm
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A poikilotherm is an organism whose internal temperature varies considerably. It is the opposite of a homeotherm, an organism which maintains thermal homeostasis.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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The Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates: A View from Energetics
40 -i u 2 30- 20- 10- o Python molurus (27.1 kg) • Tayassu tajacu (20.2 kg) 10 I 20 I 30 I 40 Environmental temperature, °C Figure 4.1 Body temperature in poikilotherm (Python molurus) and a homeotherm of similar mass (the collared peccary ...
Brian Keith McNab, 2002
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Ecology: Principles and Applications
(Data from Humphreys, 1979.) Organisms Mean production Standard Sample efficiency error size homoiotherm has much greater energetic requirements than a poikilotherm of the same size. it also assimilates food at a much faster rate.
J. L. Chapman, M. J. Reiss, 1999
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Applied Population Ecology: A Supply-Demand Approach
EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON POIKILOTHERM DEVELOPMENTAL RATES There is a large literature on attempts to transfer the notions of the rate of chemical reactions to model the developmental rates of poikilotherms. This transition is ...
A. P. Gutierrez, 1996
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Poikilotherm
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
8
Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
An animal whose body temperature depends on its behaviorally and autonomically regulated heat uptake from its environment; contrasted with en- dotherm (inferred from "ectothermy" in Bligh and Johnson 1973, 946). See -therm : poikilotherm ...
Edward M. Barrows, 2000
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The Facts on File Dictionary of Marine Science
The designation of homoiotherm or poikilotherm is somewhat arbitrary. Both forms of animals have a variety of mechanisms for maintaining a temperature that allows them to function at maximum efficiency and to achieve a balance between  ...
Barbara Charton, John Tietjen, 2009
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Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set: Online version
This high temperature dependence of poikilotherm biogeography is evidenced not only by paleontological record but also by the recent observations of major distribution shifts in aquatic and terrestrial poi- kilotherms which are correlated with ...
‎2008

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POIKILOTHERM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term poikilotherm is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lizard stays cool as Arnold home owners trapped by fire
Profile image for dumphook · dumphook | December 15 2013, 11:06PM. Being a poikilotherm the lizard was probably full of beans. | 0. Report ... «Nottingham Post, Dec 13»
2
Largest snake 'as long as a bus'
This is because the metabolism of a poikilotherm is more or less controlled by the average temperature of its environment. Assuming the Earth ... «BBC News, Feb 09»
3
Warm-blooded Fish?
On the one hand, practically every poikilotherm that's been studied ... It's interesting to learn how another kind of poikilotherm performs a crude ... «Slashdot, Nov 05»

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