Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to an organism that regulates its body temperature largely by exchanging heat with its surroundings; cold-blooded.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, or relating to an ectotherm; cold-blooded
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment
Examples
“Current revision as of 22: 52, 27 June 2009 is called ectothermic if it lacks an internal mechanism for regulating body heat.”
“Thus, it is easy to make a distinction between them in flight. ectothermic, meaning that they have body temperature that varies with the environment and they exhibit bilateral symmetry.”
“Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. In biology, an [[organism]] is called '' 'ectothermic' '' if it lacks an internal mechanism for regulating body heat.”
“In biology, an [[organism]] is called '' 'ectothermic' '' if it lacks an internal mechanism for regulating body heat.”
“This invertebrate is ectothermic, meaning that they have body temperature that varies with the environment and they exhibit bilateral symmetry.”
“Gigantothermy • Sometimes called ectothermic homeothermy) • Large, bulky ectothermic animals are more easily able to maintain a constant, relatively high body temperature than smaller animals by virtue of their greater volume to surface area ratio.”
“My skin turned green and scaly, I went from endo - to ectothermic and, in that life-affirming and horrifying moment every boy remembers forever, laid my first batch of soft, mucousy eggs.”
“Palaeobotanical data suggest that these polar dinosaurs lived in a temperate climate mean annual temperature about 10°C, but the climate was apparently too cold for amphibians and ectothermic reptiles.”
“I had such a wonderful time imagining you applying an ice cold stethoscope as only a ectothermic saurian can.”
“Like other cold-adapted reptiles and other ectothermic vertebrates, they exhibit behavioural hyperexcitability when chilled (that is, they suddenly become apparently alert and vigorous), and (counter-intuitively) increase the number of movements they make when exposed to really low temperatures.”
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