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Webster 1913 Edition

Hematocrya

‖

Hemˊa-toc′ry-a

,

Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr.

αἷμα

,

αἵματος

, blood +

κρύοσ

cold.]

(Zool.)

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

Hematotherma

.