cold-blooded animals
Animals, such as reptiles, fishes, and amphibians, that cannot control their body temperature and therefore become sluggish in cold weather. (Compare warm-blooded animals.)
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How to use cold-blooded animals in a sentence
All fish are cold-blooded animals; A whale is not a cold-blooded animal; therefore, A whale is not a fish.
Thought-Culture | William Walker AtkinsonThe cold-blooded animals breathe little, and are slow-moving creatures with deficient sensation and small powers of action.
What a Young Woman Ought to Know | Mary Wood-AllenThe limit of life and growth in cold-blooded animals seems to depend very much on their amount of food.
Prose Idylls | Charles KingsleyDistribution of certain cold-blooded animals in Louisiana in relationship to the geology and physiography of the state.
North American Recent Soft-shelled Turtles (Family Trionychidae) | Robert G. WebbThis is a very remarkable instance of how completely animation can be suspended in cold-blooded animals.
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