According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
HOMOIOTHERMAL
Etymology
Adjective
homoiothermal (not comparable)
(biology) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; applied to warm-blooded animals.
Source: Wiktionary
Ho*moi`o*ther"mal, a. Etym: [Gr. thermal.] (Physiol.)
Definition: Maintaining a uniform temperature; hæmatothermal; homothermic;
– applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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