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warm-blooded
[ wawrm-bluhd-id ]
adjective
- ardent, impetuous, or passionate:
young and warm-blooded valor.
warm-blooded
adjective
- ardent, impetuous, or passionate
- (of birds and mammals) having a constant body temperature, usually higher than the temperature of the surroundings Technical namehomoiothermic
warm-blooded
/ wôrm′blŭd′ĭd /
- Having a relatively warm body temperature that stays about the same regardless of changes in the temperature of the surroundings. Birds and mammals are warm-blooded.
Derived Forms
- ˌwarm-ˈbloodedness, noun
Other Words From
- warm-blooded·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of warm-blooded1
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Example Sentences
Janice Min questions why powerful men always seek warm-blooded blow-up dolls.
Is produced from the females of all the warm-blooded animals, which are enumerated among the mammali.
Eventually they come to live as adults on their warm-blooded hosts, cats, dogs, or man.
They are warm-blooded animals and not fish at all, so they must come to the top of the waves for air to breathe.
There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
In the same way was advanced the hypothesis that "all birds are warm-blooded, winged, feathered, oviparous vertebrates."
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