poikilothermic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: poikilothermic	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for poikilothermic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poikilothermic adj of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment Synonym(s): poikilothermic, poikilothermous, heterothermic, ectothermic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Poikilothermal \Poi`kilother"mal\ (-th[etil]r"m[ait]l), Poikilothermic \Poi`kilother"mic\ (-th[etil]r"m[icr]k), a. [Gr. poiki`los changeable + E. thermal, thermic.] (Physiol.) Having a varying body temperature. See {Homoiothermal}.