Cold-blooded (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated).
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Snakes and other reptiles are cold-blooded, meaning their body temperature changes with the surroundings.
- In cold-blooded animals like fish, the ambient temperature greatly affects their metabolic rate.
- Being cold-blooded, turtles have difficulty regulating their own body temperature and often seek external heat sources.
- Amphibians are characterized as cold-blooded due to their dependence on environmental heat sources.
- The term "cold-blooded" is often misused in popular culture, but technically it refers to the lack of internal temperature regulation in certain species.