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Meaning of WARM-BLOODED

Pronunciation:  'worm 'bludid

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  (zoology) having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated)
 
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 Synonyms: homeothermic, homoiothermic, homothermic
 
 Antonyms: cold-blooded
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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}.
 

 

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