poikilothermic

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  • Except for the few mammals and birds that went back to the ocean to live, all sea-dwelling organisms are said to be poikilothermic -- with body temperatures that vary. —  F ;SF - vol 092 issue 01 - January 1997
  • My kind are unable to blush, being poikilothermic (I modestly call the attention of the learned gentlemen of the Admissions Office to my marks in the Biology achievement examinations, for which no algebra was required) else I would have done so. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 03 - September 2002
  • KTF, FTOF Author's note Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures adapt automatically to changes in their environment, without their noticing. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • "poikilothermic" animals. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • Also, from work recently done by J.O. Wakelin Barratt, it has been shown that under certain pathological conditions a warm-blooded (homoiothermic) animal may become for a time cold-blooded (poikilothermic). —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
 

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