adj.[動]變溫的；冷血的；冷血動物的

Cockroaches are also poikilothermic, or cold-blooded. 蟑螂是一種變溫動物，也就是俗稱的冷血動物。

True fishes, those poikilothermic vertebrates breathing by gills throughout life and having limbes, if any, in the form of fins. 用來指出內(nèi)文的真骨的魚，魚廣義被應(yīng)用于水生的動物例如鯨，甲殼動物與軟體動物。

Amphibians and reptiles are poikilothermic and quite sensitive to the change of ambient temperature.They adapt to environmental temperature by means of self-thermoregulation. 兩棲類和爬行類屬于變溫脊椎動物，它對外界環(huán)境溫度的變化非常敏感，借助自身體溫調(diào)節(jié)以適應(yīng)或抵抗這種變化。

ectotherm An organism with a body temperture determined by the environment; poikilotherm; cold-blooded. 外溫動物體溫隨著外界環(huán)境溫度而變化的物種的。