Hem`a*toc"ry*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + kry`os cold.] Zool.

The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma.

 

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