Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Having a varying body temperature. See
homoiothermal .
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- adjective
poikilothermic
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Inconsistencies and nonparallelisms abound: cisatlantic is in but not cisalpine; tramontane but not cismontane; poikilothermal but not homoiothermal.
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