1. able to tolerate only a narrow range of temperatures
Usage: biology; ecology

Examples

• Many tropical fish are stenothermal and cannot survive in cooler waters.
• Coral reefs are stenothermal ecosystems that are vulnerable to temperature changes.
• The stenothermal nature of these bacteria limits their distribution to specific thermal zones.
• Climate change poses a serious threat to stenothermal species.
• Arctic organisms are often stenothermal, adapted to consistently cold conditions.
• The laboratory maintained stenothermal conditions for the sensitive cell cultures.