Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An organism that regulates its body temperature largely by exchanging heat with its surroundings; a poikilotherm.
Wiktionary
- n. biology a cold-blooded animal which regulates its body temperature by exchanging heat with its surroundings
WordNet 3.0
- n. an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals
Examples
“That's why several zoos are participating in a sort of sperm bank for snot otters, says Dale McGinnity, ectotherm curator for the Nashville Zoo.”
The Wall Street Journal: Green Movement's New Mascot: the Slimy Snot Otter
“Whereas an endotherm expends a tremendous amount of energy just to maintain a constant body temperature, a cold ectotherm can pass months at a time requiring little food or oxygen.”
“Endotherms differ from an ectotherm because they typically have core temperatures above that of the surrounding environment, whereas the core temperatures of ectotherms depend on external sources of heat – primarily from solar radiation.”
“Turtle • Endotherm / ectotherm - Migration to northern water • Problems - Stagnant ocean -”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ectotherm’.
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Dinosaurs, extended
At first, this was a list for things found in Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky. But now it's degenerated a bit to contain anything dinosaur or fossil related.
disarticulate, body fossil, trace fossil, apatite, soft anatomy, permineralization, replacement, articulated, disarticulated, intestine’s-eye view, ichnofossil, paleoenvironment and 270 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, E
excoriate, exoskeleton, enclave, endemic, erstwhile, entwine, elliptical, élan, earflaps, earlobe, earthen, earthenware and 238 more...
Tweets
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bilby "Commonly known as being cold-blooded and in need of sunshine, the world's fish and reptiles may be struggling to keep cool in the future. The finding raises concerns about how ectotherms - animals that regulate their body heat using air temperature - will cope in a warmer world predicted by climate change. Writing in today's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of Australian and US researchers say the impact of climate change on ectotherms will depend on how global warming-induced changes in habitat alter the ability to access shade."
- Dani Cooper, Cold comfort for reptiles in warmer world Feb 19, 2009