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warm-blooded
CIDE DICTIONARY
warm-blooded, a.
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
warm-blooded, adj.
1 (of an organism) having warm blood; mammalian (see HOMOEOTHERM).
2 ardent, passionate.
1 (of an organism) having warm blood; mammalian (see HOMOEOTHERM).
2 ardent, passionate.
Derivative
warm-bloodedness n.
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