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mesotherm

mesotherm noun: 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.

Noun

mesotherm (plural mesotherms)

  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.2016 January 16, “Gigantism and Its Implications for the History of Life”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. A plant that thrives in moderate temperatures.

Forms of mesotherm

pluralmesotherms

Origin of mesotherm

From meso- + -therm.

Questions about mesotherm

What does mesotherm mean?
Mesotherm means 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.
What part of speech is mesotherm?
Mesotherm is a noun.
What is the plural of mesotherm?
The plural of mesotherm is mesotherms.

Words near mesotherm in the dictionary

  1. mesotherapy
  2. mesothere
  3. mesotheres
  4. mesotheriid
  5. mesotheriids
  6. mesotherm
  7. mesothermal
  8. mesothermic
  9. mesothermophile
  10. mesothermophiles
  11. mesotherms

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