1) Exclusively Anglo word 2) Exclusively Saxon word 3) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 4) Word of purely Anglo origin
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1) Dispassionate 2) Poikilothermal 3) Sensitive to cold 4) Without emotion or feeling
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Cold-blooded is a generic term for a complex suite of characters that determine an animal`s thermophysiology. These characters include: == Other uses == ...
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• (a.) Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country. • (a.) Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them. • (a.) Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
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Cold blooded (or ectothermic) animals rely upon the temperature and their behavior (like sunning themselves) to regulate their body temperature. Many reptiles are ectothermic. Many dinosaurs may have been cold-blooded.
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Animal with a body temperature that changes with the surroundings.
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An animal whose body temperature changes with the temperature of the air or water around it, as a turtle or fish.
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Cold'-blood`ed adjective 1. Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
2. Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
3. Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the comm...
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Refers to horses having ancestors that trace to heavy war horses and draft breeds Characteristics might include more substance of bone, thick skin, heavy hair coat, shaggy fetlocks, and blood that makes it suitable for slow, hard work
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Type: Term Pronunciation: kōld-blŭd′ed Synonyms: poikilothermic
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Animals that regulate their heat by relying on their surroundings, such as fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
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adj] - (zoology) having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)
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animals that can only control their body temperatures by moving into warmer or cooler areas
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the kind of animal, such as insects, reptiles, frogs, and fish whose body temperature, varies with the temperature of their surroundings. Because their rate of metabolism declines with a drop in the outside temperature, cold-blooded animals become torpid in cold weather
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Animals which are unable to adjust their body temperatures to adjust to the surrounding environment
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cannot regulate body temperature
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Ectothermic - animals that cannot regulate their body temperature relative to the environment.
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adjective having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated)
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Of animals, dependent on the surrounding temperature; see poikilothermy
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Animals which are unable to adjust their body temperatures to adjust to the surrounding environment
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designating or pertaining to animals, as fishes and reptiles, whose blood temperature ranges from the freezing point upward, in accordance with the temperature of the surrounding medium; poikilothermal. · without emotion or feeling; dispassionate; cruel: a cold-blooded murder. · sensitive to cold.
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having a body temperature that is not internally regulated
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