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warm-blooded vs. cold-blooded

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.

adjective

  1. designating or pertaining to animals, as fishes and reptiles, whose blood temperature ranges from the freezing point upward, in accordance with the temperature of the surrounding medium; poikilothermic.

  2. without emotion or feeling; dispassionate; cruel.

    a cold-blooded murder.

  3. sensitive to cold.