Definition of acclimatory
: of or relating to the physiological adjustment made by an organism to a change in its immediate environment
- Land plants … have developed sophisticated mechanisms that allow for both immediate and acclimatory responses to changing environments.
- —Stanislaw Karpinski, Science, 23 Apr. 1999
- … when compared with fish and other ectothermic animals, amphibians appear to have less capacity for acclimatory change …
- —Robert E. Ricklefs and Gary L. Miller, Ecology, 2000
