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Warm-blooded

Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

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Homothermic 84% connected

Alt. of Homothermous

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Cold-blooded 94% connected

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

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Cold-blooded 94% connected

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

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Allantoid noun · 78% connection

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the…

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Anaconda noun · 78% connection

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The…

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Bask verb · 78% connection

To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.

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Cetacea n. pl. · 78% connection

An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young w…

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Cold noun · 78% connection

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

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Dew-point noun · 78% connection

The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.

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Entropy noun · 78% connection

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

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Equable adjective · 78% connection

Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable…

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Eutherian noun · 78% connection

mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

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Eutherian mammal noun · 78% connection

mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials

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Foment verb · 78% connection

To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

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Gas noun · 78% connection

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…

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Governor noun · 78% connection

A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and m…

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Haematoblast noun · 78% connection

One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood…

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Heat noun · 78% connection

Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush;…

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Helicoid noun · 78% connection

A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform m…

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Hematotherma n. pl. · 78% connection

The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.

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Hemoglobin noun · 78% connection

The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also call…

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