WARM-BLOODED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warm-blooded mean? 

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

1. having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARM-BLOODED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated)

Similar:

homeothermic; homoiothermic; homothermic (of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Antonym:

cold-blooded (having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated))

 Context examples 

We're warm-blooded and agile in comparison with our reptilian relatives.

(What makes a mammal a mammal? Our spine, say scientists, National Science Foundation)

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)

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)

White sharks, which are warm-blooded animals, used a combination of warm- and cold-water eddies to locate food in the twilight zone, while blue sharks — a cold-blooded species — relied exclusively on warm-water eddies.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)