01 a. Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of mai…
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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.(Physiol.) See: Homoiothermal