mesotherm

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An animal that adjusts its body to a metabolically favourable temperature using a context-dependent balance of internal metabolically-produced heat and external-environmentally derived heat.
    — The large terrestrial and marine reptiles of the Mesozoic were likely mesotherms, which maintained high body temperatures by virtue of their large size and whose metabolism approached that of endotherms.
  2. A plant that thrives in moderate temperatures.

词形变化

mesotherms plural

词汇关系

相关词
mesothermic mesothermy

词源

From meso- + -therm.
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