Fish are poikilothermic aquatic animals; rice plants are thermophilic and semiaquatic. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Bodies were poikilothermic, though now functioning at a higher rate than any Terran reptile. From Wordnik.com. [A Circus of Hells]
Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures adapt automatically to changes in their environment, without their noticing. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures adapt automatically to changes in their environment, with - out their noticing. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a frog]
Reptiles are poikilothermic, which means that they can not regulate heat internally (as opposed to birds and mammals which are homeothermic). From Wordnik.com. [Reptile] Reference
Author's note Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures adapt automatically to changes in their environment, without their noticing. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
Predominantly this is because they concluded that – in view of its elongate shape and occurrence in cold waters – Caddy must be poikilothermic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
The political animal, the political observer and the political electorate are, like amphibians, poikilothermic - their own temperatures adjust to that of their environment, so that if a change is gradual enough, they won't even notice it. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a frog]
Hogben & Kirk were trying to demonstrate that the body temperatures of animals like slugs and earthworms whose external surfaces are always wet are not necessarily in equilibrium with the temperature of their surroundings, despite the fact that they are poikilothermic or cold-blooded. From Wordnik.com. [How to take a slug's temperature and what you can learn from it] Reference
Behavioural and physiological processes in poikilothermic organisms (e.g. most fishes), are particularly influenced by surrounding temperatures. From Wordnik.com. [Elites TV] Reference
The metabolic and growth rates of squid are higher than many poikilothermic vertebrates, including most teleost fish, and can in fact be as high as some mammals. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Dangle slithering, venom-slathering, shudder-inducing monsters in front of you introduce some of the more interesting poikilothermic ectotherms waiting to kill me around every corner we occasionally see here, I'm going to take advantage of an encounter I had yesterday and was damned lucky to escape alive fortunate enough to document photographically -- which fangirls Foxfier and Karla the Threadbndr should appreciate. From Wordnik.com. [Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..] Reference
"poikilothermic" animals. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
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