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cold-blooded
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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

See also: callous, cruel, dispassionate, malevolent, malignant, phlegmatic, relentless, ruthless, sinister

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Food web magnification of persistent organic pollutants in poikilotherms and homeotherms from the Barents Sea, Environ.

Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for the calibration and ... by Wise, Stephen A. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Although our experiments on frogs have all been conducted at room temperature (near the high end of the normal range of temperatures for free-ranging bullfrogs) and we traumatized equally both limbs of each animal and statistically compared treated limbs with untreated limbs, bullfrogs are poikilotherms (cold-blooded) and may therefore respond differently from homeothermic (warm-blooded) mammals to trauma and to treatment.

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