| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, 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.[Websters]
2. Being hot-blooded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb homoiothermally.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (homoiothermally) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective homoiothermal.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HOMOIOTHERMAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Homoiothermal \Ho*moi`o*ther"mal\, adjective. [Greek expression like English thermal.]. (references) |
