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Cold-blooded Animals

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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.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Coin
Coin Money (To)
Coins
Coke
Coke upon Littleton
Colbronde or Colbrand
Colcannon
Cold as Charity
Cold-Bath Fields
Cold Blood
Cold-blooded Animals
Cold-blooded Persons
Cold-chisel (A)
Cold Drawn Oil
Cold Pigeon (A)
Cold Pudding settles Love
Cold Shoulder
Cold Steel
Cold Water Ordeal
Cold Without
Coldbrand