noun
- organisms that can tolerate only a narrow range of temperatures
Usage: biology
Examples
- Many tropical fish are stenotherms and cannot survive in cold water.
- Coral reef organisms are typically stenotherms adapted to warm ocean temperatures.
- Climate change poses a serious threat to stenotherms with limited temperature tolerance.
- Arctic species are often stenotherms specialized for cold environments.
- The laboratory maintains strict temperature controls when studying stenotherms.
- Unlike eurytherms, stenotherms have narrow thermal tolerance ranges.