English Explanatory Dictionary

mesotherm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
A plant that thrives in moderate temperatures.

Word forms

mesotherm mesotherms

Etymology

From meso- + -therm.

Related words

mesothermic mesothermy

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