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| amphibian |
any cold-blooded vertebrate, such as a frog or salamander, that has aquatic gill-breathing larvae and terrestrial lung-breathing adults. [2/4 definitions] |
| bird |
a warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animal with wings and feathers, which usu. has the ability to fly. [1/5 definitions] |
| fish |
any of various cold-blooded vertebrates that live in water, have gills, fins, and a tail, and move by swimming. [1/7 definitions] |
| flea |
any of an order of tiny wingless insects that move by jumping, and feed by sucking the blood of warm-blooded animals. [1/2 definitions] |
| poikilothermal |
having a body temperature that varies with the environment; cold-blooded. |
| reptile |
any of the class of vertebrate cold-blooded animals, including lizards, turtles, snakes, crocodiles, and the like, that breathe with lungs, are covered with scales or hard plates, and have short legs or none at all. [1/4 definitions] |
| salmonella |
any of several bacteria that produce illness, esp. food poisoning, in humans and other warm-blooded animals. |
| tick2 |
any of numerous parasitic bloodsucking arachnids related to spiders and mites, that attach themselves to warm-blooded animals and are in some cases carriers of infectious diseases. |
| unblooded |
combined form of blooded. |
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