BLOODED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blooded mean? 

• BLOODED (adjective)
  The adjective BLOODED has 1 sense:

1. of unmixed ancestry

  Familiarity information: BLOODED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOODED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of unmixed ancestry

Synonyms:

blooded; full-blood; full-blooded

Context example:

blooded Jersies

Similar:

purebred (bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain)

 Context examples 

Mammalia, Reptilia, Gastropoda, Insecta, etc that contains a large number of different sublineages, but have shared characteristics in common (e.g. warm-blooded, fur, six legs etc).

(Class, NCI Thesaurus)

Henry Crawford, ruined by early independence and bad domestic example, indulged in the freaks of a cold-blooded vanity a little too long.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Large, warm-blooded dinosaurian herbivores weren't able to exist close to the equator—there was not enough dependable plant food.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)

I am blooded fifty ounces a month, but the more I take the more I make.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

E. fergusonii can be isolated from the intestinal tract of warm blooded animals and from contaminated beef.

(Escherichia fergusonii, NCI Thesaurus)

Lyssavirus species 1 can be carried by any warm-blooded mammal while species 2-7 have specific hosts.

(Lyssavirus, NCI Thesaurus)

Either of the two fleshy, full-blooded margins of the mouth.

(Murine Lip, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A class of warm-blooded vertebrate animals having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk.

(Mammalia, NCI Thesaurus)

Norton was sensitive and excitable, though he never lost his head, while Kreis and Hamilton were like a pair of cold-blooded savages, seeking out tender places to prod and poke.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a cold-blooded exhibition of marksmanship.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)