Homoiothermal

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  • adj. Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; applied to warm-blooded animals.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Maintaining a uniform body temperature, usually above the ambient temperature; hæmatothermal; homothermic; warm-blooded; -- applied to warm-bodied animals such as birds and mammals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as homÅ“othermal.
    • Word Usage
    "Inconsistencies and nonparallelisms abound: cisatlantic is in but not cisalpine; tramontane but not cismontane; poikilothermal but not homoiothermal."
    Equivalent
    homoiothermic   
     
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