Definitions for warm-blooded

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Spelling: [wawrm-bluhd-id]

IPA: /ˈwɔrmˈblʌd ɪd/

Warm-Blooded is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 680 anagrams from letters in warm-blooded (-abddelmoorw).

Definitions for warm-blooded

adjective

1. Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
2. ardent, impetuous, or passionate:

Origin of warm-blooded

First recorded in 1785-95

Examples for warm-blooded

But Burl and his fellows knew of no warm-blooded creature but themselves.

But there were a few, small, struggling, warm-blooded animals.

This insect is already adapted for life on some warm-blooded animal.

Both feed on warm-blooded animals, and neither will eat carrion.

But Burl and his fellows knew of no warm-blooded creatures but themselves.

This action is noticed in cold as well as in warm-blooded animals.

Professor Owen argued from the absence of feathers that they could not have been warm-blooded.

The whale is a warm-blooded animal; the fish is cold-blooded.

When we examine the construction of the whale we find that it is warm-blooded, as we are.

They seemed to have forgotten that all the warm-blooded animals, except man, must necessarily drink cold water.