Brewer's: Cold-blooded Animals

As a rule, all invertebrate animals, and all fishes and reptiles, are called cold-blooded, because the temperature of their blood is about equal to the medium in which they live.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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