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warm-blooded

warm-blooded

4 3.5
An animal that keeps a steady temperature inside its body, like humans and birds
  • adjective
  • /ˈwɔrmˈblʌdɪd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : de sangre caliente
  • Unlike cold-blooded species, warm-blooded creatures like mammals can generate their own body heat.
  • warm-blooded animals
  • warm-blooded humans

Well, it turns out generating heat is what those calories do, and you and I are warm blooded animals.

Examples

  • By the same token, small, warm-blooded animals must eat constantly to keep their intense internal fires burning.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Besides, until now, no warm-blooded animal had ever had the audacity to challenge it.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • This is a warm-blooded creature.

    Jurassic Park (1993)

  • But this bat, it has a taste for any warm-blooded creature it can find.

    The Legend of Ochi (2025)

  • This is the part of the brain that we share only with warm blooded creatures, with mammals.

  • Rabies occurs only in warm-blooded animals.

    Sneakers (1992)

  • Warm-blooded animals are intermediate hosts, and cats are the definitive hosts.

    Academic text (2006)

  • They're mammals, just like you and me, warm-blooded, needing air to breathe, and producing milk to nurse their young.

    Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

  • Bergmann's rule says that warm-blooded animals tend to be larger in colder environments than those found in warmer ones.

    Blog text (25)

  • Consequently, IR detectors with high sensitivity in this wavelength region can easily detect human beings and other warm-blooded animals.

    Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

homeothermic
vswarm-blooded
  • Specialized
9.8

Keeping a steady, fairly high body temperature no matter the weather

is about animals keeping an internally regulated constant temperature not tied to the environment
homothermic
vswarm-blooded
  • Specialized
9.3

Animals such as birds and mammals that keep a steady warm body temperature no matter the weather

is broader covering any animals with internally kept constant temperature
homoiothermic
vswarm-blooded
  • Specialized
9.9

Having a steady warm body temperature even when the air is cold or hot

is the general term for animals with internally kept stable body temperature

Antonyms

cold-blooded
  • Specialized
5 3.7

An animal whose body temperature changes with the air or water temperature

How Warm-Blooded

warm-blooded
  • Specialized
4 3.5
ectotherm
  • Specialized
1 8.7
cold-blooded
  • Specialized
5 3.7

Surface Forms

warm-blooded positive

Morphology

warm-blooded = warm + blooded (transparent) = warm + blood + ed

The adjective is transparently built from 'warm' + 'blood' + '-ed' to mean 'having warm blood', a direct compositional meaning.

Etymology

Warm-blooded is made of warm and blood, so think of an animal with 'warm blood' inside it. That's why warm-blooded animals keep their body temperature steady from inside, even when the weather changes.