homoiothermal

English

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Etymology

Ancient Greek like + English thermal.

Adjective

homoiothermal (not comparable)

  1. (biology) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; applied to warm-blooded animals.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for homoiothermal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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