WARM-BLOODED
\wˈɔːmblˈʌdɪd], \wˈɔːmblˈʌdɪd], \w_ˈɔː_m_b_l_ˈʌ_d_ɪ_d]\
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having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated)
By Princeton University
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Having warm blood: applied in zool. to mammals and birds, the blood of which by virtue of a complete circulation of that fluid, and its aeration through the medium of lungs at each revolution, has a temperature varying from 99° or 100° F. in man to 110° or 112° F. in birds: in contradistinction to fishes, amphibians and reptiles, or cold-blooded animals.
By Daniel Lyons
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