poikilotherm
Mar. 21st, 2006 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordpoikilotherm - n., an organism having a body temperature that varies with the environment; a coldblooded organism.
So no, not an oddball-thousand unit of measuring heat. Coined from Greek poikilos, variegated + therm, heat. A nice $20 word to describe a snake. (Okay, yeah, there's ectotherm, but I can never keep that and endotherm straight, and get exothermic mixed in to boot.)
---L.
So no, not an oddball-thousand unit of measuring heat. Coined from Greek poikilos, variegated + therm, heat. A nice $20 word to describe a snake. (Okay, yeah, there's ectotherm, but I can never keep that and endotherm straight, and get exothermic mixed in to boot.)
---L.
