Warm-blooded

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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