homotherm

What does homotherm mean?

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

How many syllables are in homotherm?

homotherm has 3 syllables and divides as ho-mo-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 homotherm?

Close synonyms include homeotherm, homoiotherm. 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 homotherm a common word?

homotherm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 homotherm come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.