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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having blood which retains a uniform temperature notwithstanding the temperature of the environment: said of warm-blooded as opposed to cold-blooded, pœcilothermic, or heterothermal animals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective See homoiothermal.
  • adjective (Biol.) having constant and relatively high body temperature; warm-blooded; same as homoiothermal; -- of birds and mammals. Contrasted to poikilothermal.

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