Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 maintaining a relatively constant and warm body temperature, regardless of the ambient temperature 2 (''idiomatically'') passionate
WordNet
adj. having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated) [ant: cold-blooded]
Wikipedia
Warm-blooded animal species can maintain a body temperature higher than their environment. In particular, homeothermic species maintain a stable body temperature by regulating metabolic processes. The only known homeotherms are birds and mammals. Other species have various degrees of thermoregulation.
Animal body temperature control varies by species, so the terms "warm-blooded" and " cold-blooded" give a false idea of there being only two categories of body temperature control, and are no longer used scientifically. The terms are still in everyday use.
Usage examples of "warm-blooded".
In other respects they are warm-blooded, viviparous mammals, destitute of hinder limbs, and with very short fore-limbs completely enclosed in skin, but having the usual number of bones, though very much shortened, forming a kind of fin.
That meant the parasites could be transferred to and from an array of other warm-blooded hosts, including rats.
A Big Bang had occurred, originating at the bridge of her nose, and the force of this explosion had sent galaxies of freckles hurtling and drifting to every end of her curved, warm-blooded universe.
The ceiling had been lowered, which indicated that the occupant-to-be either crawled or did not stand very tall, and the plumbing and power supply lines, revealed by the incomplete wall paneling, bore the color codings for a warm-blooded oxygen-breather with normal gravity and atmospheric pressure requirements.
Even though dashers preferred warm-blooded meat, they'd go for anything that moved when they were hungry.
A line of bright-red hatch marks marches across the rear LED window of the lightweight olive-green PVC tube as it detects differences in the surface temperatures of the warm-blooded thing and the earth.
But, as applied by any race of warm-blooded, oxygen-breathing androidal creatures to a particular environment, the results, although strange, are necessarily such that Terran humans can use them.
I should prefer to use the dining facilities of your warm-blooded oxygen breathers.
A warm-blooded, fur-covered Sordes -and a fish eater, not an insectivore, but it's definitely a Sordes, there's no mistaking that!
Looks like a lizard, and it's only four inches long, but it's a real warm-blooded, gamogenetic, placental, viviparous mammal.
But Pam Tudsbury, whom he remembered from Paris as the warm-blooded girlfriend of Philip Rule-wild in her ways, candidly sensual, freshest and gayest when the dawn came upbrushed off his passes.
They scanned the gullied slopes a full three kilometers ahead, noting small animals sleeping in burrows and the scaly, warm-blooded night-flyers of Plattner's World which curvetted in the skies above.
A stunner will act quickly on any warm-blooded creature, but its effect, unless on high beam, was much slower for a reptile, and we kept our weapons on low beam.
The culprit was something like a sand flea, which, you will note, has a taste for warm-blooded critters.
The culprit was something like a sand flea, which, you will note, has a taste for warm-blooded crit- ters.