different between fluctuate vs poikilothermy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluctuo, fluctuatus.

Verb

fluctuate (third-person singular simple present fluctuates, present participle fluctuating, simple past and past participle fluctuated)

1. (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
2. (intransitive) To undulate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.

   I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.

4. (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.

Related terms

• fluctuant

Translations

Latin

Verb

fl?ctu?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fl?ctu?

English

Noun

poikilothermy (uncountable)

1. (biology) The quality of having a body temperature that varies or fluctuates, depending on the temperature of the environment; cold-bloodedness.

Synonyms

• cold-bloodedness
• poikilothermism

Hypernyms

• bloodedness

Coordinate terms

• homeothermy
• homoiothermy
• warm-bloodedness

Related terms

Translations

See also

• bradymetabolism
• daily torpor
• Djungarian hamster (also Siberian hamster, Russian winter white dwarf hamster), Phodopus sungorus
• metabolism
• naked mole rat (also sand puppy or desert mole rat), Heterocephalus glaber
• tachymetabolism
• warm-blooded