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warm-blooded definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated) [ant: cold-blooded]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1793 1. having warm blood; specifically having a relatively high and constant internally regulated body temperature relatively independent of the surroundings 2. fervent or ardent in spirit • warm-bloodedness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of an organism) having warm blood; mammalian (see HOMOEOTHERM). 2 ardent, passionate. Derivatives: warm-bloodedness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Warm-blooded Warm"-blood`ed, a. (Physiol.) Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A warm-blooded animal, for example a bird or a mammal, has a fairly high body temperature which does not change much and is not affected by the surrounding temperature. ? cold-blooded ADJ