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bloodedness

bloodedness

8.8
A quality of an animal that belongs to a certain breed or type
  • noun
  • /ˈblʌdɪdnəs/
translation icon : tipo de sangre
  • Toward the end of the reign of dinosaurs, some animals (the future mammals and birds) evolved endothermy, or warm-bloodedness.
  • warm-bloodedness

The invention of warm bloodedness had major effects both on animals lifestyles and also on their brains.

Examples

  • The invention of warm bloodedness had major effects both on animals lifestyles and also on their brains.

    The Royal Institution

  • The warm-bloodedness of certain animals allows them to survive in colder climates.

  • They had evolved warm bloodedness and hence feathers as a way to keep warm.

  • Thus, dinosaur posture suggested warm-bloodedness.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • But because it is almost impossible to determine the history of a biological process, we may never know the role of the mitochondrion in the evolution of warm-bloodedness.

    Academic text (2001)

  • EVOLUTION OF WARM-BLOODEDNESS

    Academic text (2001)

  • Arthur Dunham, of the University of Pennsylvania, and his colleagues argued against warm-bloodedness, but they believe that all dinosaurs were reproductively mature by the age of twenty at the latest; otherwise, survival rates of the young would have to have been impossibly high to maintain the population.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Scientists discovered that the warm-bloodedness of birds gives them an advantage during migration.

  • The study revealed that the warm-bloodedness of mammals is key to their high levels of activity.

Compounds

cold-bloodedness
6.8

A calm way of behaving in stressful situations

cold-bloodedness
  • Offensive
6.7

Not showing pity and acting cruel, or having a body temperature that changes with the air

Surface Forms

bloodedness singular
bloodednesses plural

Morphology

bloodedness = blooded (transparent) = blood + ed + ness

Refers to the biological or breed-related condition expressed by 'blooded'; the composition is literal and directly interpretable.

Etymology

Bloodedness comes from blood meaning 'type' or 'line' and the endings -ed and -ness that make a condition. Breeders use this idea to talk about an animal's 'blood' or breed, so the word can mean having a particular kind or quality of blood.