Word: mesotherms
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: me
so
therms
Definition: Plural of mesotherm. An animal that adjusts its body to a metabolically favourable temperature using a context-dependent balance of internal metabolically-produced heat and external-environmentally derived heat.
Morphemes:
Affix: meso-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: Designating an achiral member of a group of diastereoisomers that has at least one chiral member
Etymology Compounds: Affix: μέσος
Language: grc
Decoded: mesos
Meaning: middle
Affix: -therm
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: used to name types of animal having a specified form of body temperature mechanism
Etymology Compounds: Affix: θερμός
Language: grc
Decoded: thermos
Meaning: warm
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).