poikilotherm

Questions about poikilotherm

What is another word for poikilotherm?

It depends which poikilotherm you mean. In the sense “an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals”, the synonyms are ectotherm. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of poikilotherm?

WordNet records no antonym for poikilotherm. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for poikilotherm come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of poikilotherm

• Full entry for poikilothermAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for poikilothermWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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