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Caloricity
Caloricity \Cal`o*ric"ity\, n. (Physiol.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
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caloricity
n. ectothermy
Usage examples of "caloricity".
At first she “ran a temperature” in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delightsVenus febriculosathough it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace.