idiothermic

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Etymology edit

Adjective edit

idiothermic (not comparable)

(obsolete) Self-heating; warmed by processes going on within itself.
Mammals are idiothermic.

Synonyms edit

idiothermous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “idiothermic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)