Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.
Wiktionary
- adj. cold-blooded
- n. A cold-blooded animal
WordNet 3.0
- n. an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals
Etymologies
- From poikilo- + -therm. (Wiktionary)
- Greek poikilos, spotted, various; see peig- in Indo-European roots + -therm. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Joe G: poikilotherm is the one who alleges ID is science albeit "fringe" science (whatever that means).”
“December 30th, 2005 at 6: 22 pm tika, poikilotherm is the one who alleges ID is science albeit "fringe" science (whatever that means).”
“I've always been pretty baffled by LeBlond and Bousfield's conclusions, wouldn't a reptilian poikilotherm in 40-50 degree water be pretty much unfunctional?”
“December 30th, 2005 at 1: 16 pm poikilotherm sez: say archaeologists did find unequivocal, unambiguous evidence that confirmed for every single scientist, famous and important religious miracle story X.”
“December 30th, 2005 at 3: 00 pm poikilotherm originally stated: say archaeologists did find unequivocal, unambiguous evidence that confirmed for every single scientist, famous and important religious miracle story X. then switches to:”
“December 30th, 2005 at 3: 59 pm poikilotherm back peddles with:”
“December 30th, 2005 at 12: 27 pm poikilotherm writes:”
“Are you suggesting you be spoon fed? poikilotherm:”
“As rational people understand foundations are key to success. poikilotherm:”
“IOW we want to be allowed to follow the evidence to whatever inference is warranted by the data poikilotherm:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poikilotherm’.
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250 Spelling Words
A selected sampling of words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
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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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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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Freedom
ipseity, ataxia, cognoscible, poikilotherm, seity, cerulean, thrasonical, diacritical, pogonip, armigerous, nyctalopia, incarnadine and 1 more...
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