homeotherm

What does homeotherm mean?

homeotherm means "an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature".

How many syllables are in homeotherm?

homeotherm has 4 syllables and divides as ho-me-o-therm under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for homeotherm?

Close synonyms include homoiotherm, homotherm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is homeotherm a common word?

homeotherm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for homeotherm come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.