warm-blooded

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warm-blooded - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Warm-blooded \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.
     [1913 Webster]

warm-blooded - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  warm-blooded
      adj 1: having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is
             internally regulated) [ant: cold-blooded]