warm-blooded

[ wawrm-bluhd-id ]

adjective

1. Also designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
2. ardent, impetuous, or passionate:

   young and warm-blooded valor.

warm-blooded

adjective

1. ardent, impetuous, or passionate
2. (of birds and mammals) having a constant body temperature, usually higher than the temperature of the surroundings Technical namehomoiothermic

warm-blooded

/ wôrm′blŭd′ĭd /

1. 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-blooded·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of warm-blooded¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

Janice Min questions why powerful men always seek warm-blooded blow-up dolls.

From The Daily Beast

Is produced from the females of all the warm-blooded animals, which are enumerated among the mammali.

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Eventually they come to live as adults on their warm-blooded hosts, cats, dogs, or man.

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They are warm-blooded animals and not fish at all, so they must come to the top of the waves for air to breathe.

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There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

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In the same way was advanced the hypothesis that "all birds are warm-blooded, winged, feathered, oviparous vertebrates."

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