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cold-blooded adjective aloof, barbarous, brutal, brutish, calculated, calculating, callous, cold, cold-hearted, cruel, cruel hearted, deliberate, demoniac, devilish, dispassionate, feelingless, fiendish, frigid, hard, hardened, heartless, imperturbable, impervious, indifferent, indurate, indurated, inhumane, insensitive, malevolent, malicious, malign, obdurate, passionless, pococurante, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, savage, soulless, truculent, uncaring, unconcerned, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpressible, uninterested, unkind, unmerciful, unmindful, unmoved, unperturbed, unrelenting, unsolicitous, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untroubled, without heart, without warmth
Associated concepts: cold-blooded murder

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aloof barbarous brutish calculated calculating callous cold cold-hearted cruel cruel hearted demoniac devilish diabolic dispassionate feelingless fiendish frigid hard hardened			Temperature is assumed to be the most important environmental modulator of poikilotherm metabolism (Thompson 1984). A metabolic model for the ocean quahog Arctica islandica--effects of ... by Begum, S.; Basova, L.; Strahl, J.; Sukhotin, A.; Heilmayer, O.; Philipp, E.; Brey, T.; Abele, D. / Journal of Shellfish Research Paleontologists long have known of a rough correlation between a period or epoch's temperature and the size of its poikilotherms (cold-blooded creatures). Prehistoric snake: 43 feet long, 2,500 pounds by USA Today (Magazine) Another source of potential bias in the POF method is the duration of follicular degeneration, which may be temperature-dependent (Hunter and Macewicz, 1985), because the metabolic rates of poikilotherms, like fish, may be directly affected by ambient temperature. Degeneration of postovulatory follicles in the Iberian sardine ... by Ganias, Konstantinos; Nunes, Cristina; Stratoudakis, Yorgos / Fishery Bulletin			Plures cohaeredes sunt quasi unum corpus plures esse Plures participes sunt quasi unum corpus Pluries plus Plus exempla quam peccata nocent Plus peccat auctor quam actor Plus valet unus oculatus testis ply ply one’s task ply one’s trade plying poach poached trade poached traffic Poaching pock-marked pocket Pocket Part pococurante pococurantism poena poenalis poetic poignant poikilotherm Poinding point point at point at issue point in common point in dispute point in question point of point of cessation point of comparison point of concentration point of convergence point of difference point of disembarkation point of etiquette point of no return point of resemblance point of time point of view point out point out an essential difference Point reserved point to point to be settled point up			poignancy poignant poignant poignantly poignantly poikil(o)- poikil- poikile poikile Poikilitic Poikilitic poikilo- poikiloblast poikiloblast poikiloblastic poikilocrystallic poikilocyte poikilocyte poikilocyte poikilocytosis poikilocytosis poikilocytosis poikiloderma poikiloderma atrophicans vasculare poikiloderma congenitale poikiloderma of Civatte Poikiloderma with Neutropenia poikilophitic Poikilosmotic Animal poikilospherocyte poikilotherm Poikilothermal Poikilothermal Poikilothermal poikilothermia poikilothermia poikilothermia poikilothermia poikilothermic poikilothermic poikilothermic poikilothermic poikilothermies poikilothermies poikilothermies Poikilothermism Poikilothermism Poikilothermism Poikilothermism poikilothermous poikilotherms poikilotherms poikilotherms Poikilothermy Poikilothermy Poikilothermy Poikilothermy poikilotope poikilotopic Poikovskii POIL

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