stenothermal
/ˌstɛnə(ʊ)ˈθəːm(ə)l
/adjective Ecology
(Of an organism) able to tolerate only a small range of temperature: most species that are restricted to a particular range of latitudes are described as stenothermal...Often contrasted with eurythermal.
- However, the thermal range over which ABT was modified was typically wider for more eurythermal species than for stenothermal species (compare green and pinto abalones).
- Aquaculture in Poland is based on breeding freshwater stenothermal or non-stenothermal fish in fish ponds located throughout the country.
- There is also a group of distinctive foraminifera more or less confined to the zone of the Tethys and thought to be a stenothermal tropical group.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek stenos 'narrow' + thermal.
- colouring
- colouring book
- colouring in
- colouring matter
- colouring wheel
- colourism
- colourist
- colouristic
- colouristically
- colourize
- colour-keyed
- colourless
- colourlessly
- colourlessness
- colour light signal
- colour light signalling
- colour line
- colour magazine
- colourman
- colour match
- colour-matched
- colour matching
- colour melody
- colour-mixer
- colour model