homeothermy en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or condition of being homeothermic.
As always, however, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and we mammals must pay for the convenience of homeothermy by eating many extra lunches.
2007 February 20, Natalie Angier, “A Mammal in Winter With a Furnace of Her Own”, in New York Times:
Translations (1)
fr homéothermie (the state or condition of being homeothermic)