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Definition of Homothermic
1. Adjective. Of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature.
Similar to: Warm-blooded
Derivative terms: Homeotherm, Homoiotherm, Homotherm
Definition of Homothermic
1. a. Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hæmatothermal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homothermic
Literary usage of Homothermic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"The warm surface water of the B*y of Biscay in summer seems to form a homothermic
layer, the depth of which increased until the month of August, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Such homothermic masses of «1er at characteristic of all deep enclosed seas.
Thus in the Malay Sea the various minor seas or basins are ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"The Xorth Channel between Scotland and Ireland was found always in a homothermic
condition, ie, the temperature was the same from surface to bottom, ..."
4. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"In the so-called warm-blooded or homothermic animals, on the other hand, ...
The mean body temperature maintained by different homothermic animals varies ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"In the so-called warm-blooded or homothermic animals, on the other hand, ...
The mean body temperature maintained by different homothermic animals varies ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"... such animals were once called " warm-blooded," but are now more correctly
termed " homothermic," because it is the constancy of the temperature which is ..."
7. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"... the ocean and in seas, the region of rapid change near the surface passing
gradually into an isothermal (or as he had ventured to term it, a homothermic ..."
8. The Colours of Animals: Their Meaning and Use, Especially Considered in the by Edward Bagnall Poulton (1890)
"... called 'warm-blooded,' but are now more correctly termed ' homothermic,'
because it is the constancy of the temperature which is so important, ..."
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