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单词 warm-blooded
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Definition of warm-blooded in English:

warm-blooded

adjectivewɔːmˈblʌdɪdˈˌwɔrm ˈblədəd
  • 1Relating to or denoting animals (chiefly mammals and birds) which maintain a constant body temperature, typically above that of the surroundings, by metabolic means; homeothermic.

    some theories suggest that the dinosaurs were warm-blooded
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Only warm-blooded animals have an insulating body covering, such as hair or feathers.
    • Infrared sensing pits enable them to hunt at night, when warm-blooded mammals are easier to find.
    • Experimental psychologists have demonstrated that a wide range of warm-blooded vertebrates, from parrots to bonobos, evince surprising antecedents of human linguistic capacities.
    • He found that the insects walked toward temperatures close to that of a warm-blooded animal, away from plates that were hotter, and were unaffected by the ones at room temperature.
    • Their eggs are large, green, and poisonous to warm-blooded vertebrates, including humans.
    • Should we now imagine dinosaurs as thermally insulated warm-blooded animals that ploughed through snowdrifts and scraped the ice off the ground to find food?
    • If it fell in the known range of temperatures of a warm-blooded animal, the vinchuca might as well try for a meal.
    • How does being warm-blooded help mammals (including humans) to survive in both very cold and very hot places?
    • Rabies is endemic in the majority of warm-blooded mammals in Thailand, including rats and mice, cat's favourite prey.
    • Since it is unlikely that a large warm-blooded animal will loose this metabolic characteristic and become cold-blooded, there is a solid case that Triassic thecodonts were also ectotherms.
    • Vampire bats are found across Latin America and feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals such as birds, horses and cattle.
    • Whales are mammals - warm-blooded, air-breathing creatures - but they spend their entire life in the ocean.
    • Rabies is a severe and fatal disease of the central nervous system of warm-blooded animals, including man.
    • This study calls into question our long-standing view that warm-blooded mammals were only occasional and accidental hosts of this human fungal pathogen.
    • Mammals are warm-blooded, furry, have erect stance, give birth to live young and care for them, and replace their teeth only once.
    • A typical meat-eating animal welfare advocate is personally responsible for the slaughter of twenty-two warm-blooded animals per year, 1,500 in an average lifetime.
    • Insects have evolved smell receptors tailored to their individual ecological niches: fruit flies detect fruit, for example, and mosquitoes sense humans and other warm-blooded animals.
    • Keeping a constant body temperature is the most serious challenge facing warm-blooded mammals in an aquatic environment.
    • When the carrier insect feeds on a warm-blooded animal, the eggs hatch and the larva penetrates the skin.
    • They are endotherms, or warm-blooded animals, generating their own body heat, and they can finely tune the thermal, water, and chemical balance of their bodies from minute to minute.
    Synonyms
    technical homeothermic, homeothermal
  • 2Ardent; passionate.

    the warm-blooded sailor who sets out to win a girl
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her musicality shines forth in her lyricism and she made an enchanting peasant Giselle and an ethereal but warm-blooded spirit.
    • This warm-blooded, passionate work was a challenge for unaccompanied singing and there were some beautiful moments, in particular the Pie Jesu.
    Synonyms
    passionate, ardent, red-blooded, hot-blooded, fervid, impetuous, emotional, intense, lively, spirited, fiery, tempestuous, hot, sultry, torrid

Derivatives

  • warm-bloodedness

  • noun
    • By 1978, Archaeopteryx was said to support ‘two theories: warm-bloodedness in dinosaurs and dinosaurian ancestry of birds ’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Examples would be sophisticated vocalizations, vision, echolocation, viviparity, warm-bloodedness, sexual dimorphism, division of labor (even agriculture!
      • While it is true that cold-bloodedness in extant animals today is associated with a three-chambered heart, it is by no means therefore certain that a four-chambered heart has to mean warm-bloodedness.
      • The idea that metabolic rates changed over time in this group of animals brings two basic questions to mind: First, why might an animal lineage adopt the strategy of warm-bloodedness, given its steep energy costs?
      • But because it is almost impossible to determine the history of a biological process, we may never know the role of the mitochondrion in the evolution of warm-bloodedness.

Rhymes

cold-blooded, hot-blooded, red-blooded, unstudied
 
 

Definition of warm-blooded in US English:

warm-blooded

adjectiveˈˌwôrm ˈblədədˈˌwɔrm ˈblədəd
  • 1Relating to or denoting animals (chiefly mammals and birds) which maintain a constant body temperature, typically above that of the surroundings, by metabolic means; homeothermic.

    some theories suggest that the dinosaurs were warm-blooded
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This study calls into question our long-standing view that warm-blooded mammals were only occasional and accidental hosts of this human fungal pathogen.
    • Only warm-blooded animals have an insulating body covering, such as hair or feathers.
    • When the carrier insect feeds on a warm-blooded animal, the eggs hatch and the larva penetrates the skin.
    • He found that the insects walked toward temperatures close to that of a warm-blooded animal, away from plates that were hotter, and were unaffected by the ones at room temperature.
    • They are endotherms, or warm-blooded animals, generating their own body heat, and they can finely tune the thermal, water, and chemical balance of their bodies from minute to minute.
    • Since it is unlikely that a large warm-blooded animal will loose this metabolic characteristic and become cold-blooded, there is a solid case that Triassic thecodonts were also ectotherms.
    • Keeping a constant body temperature is the most serious challenge facing warm-blooded mammals in an aquatic environment.
    • Rabies is a severe and fatal disease of the central nervous system of warm-blooded animals, including man.
    • Infrared sensing pits enable them to hunt at night, when warm-blooded mammals are easier to find.
    • Mammals are warm-blooded, furry, have erect stance, give birth to live young and care for them, and replace their teeth only once.
    • Rabies is endemic in the majority of warm-blooded mammals in Thailand, including rats and mice, cat's favourite prey.
    • Insects have evolved smell receptors tailored to their individual ecological niches: fruit flies detect fruit, for example, and mosquitoes sense humans and other warm-blooded animals.
    • Should we now imagine dinosaurs as thermally insulated warm-blooded animals that ploughed through snowdrifts and scraped the ice off the ground to find food?
    • Their eggs are large, green, and poisonous to warm-blooded vertebrates, including humans.
    • Whales are mammals - warm-blooded, air-breathing creatures - but they spend their entire life in the ocean.
    • If it fell in the known range of temperatures of a warm-blooded animal, the vinchuca might as well try for a meal.
    • A typical meat-eating animal welfare advocate is personally responsible for the slaughter of twenty-two warm-blooded animals per year, 1,500 in an average lifetime.
    • Vampire bats are found across Latin America and feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals such as birds, horses and cattle.
    • Experimental psychologists have demonstrated that a wide range of warm-blooded vertebrates, from parrots to bonobos, evince surprising antecedents of human linguistic capacities.
    • How does being warm-blooded help mammals (including humans) to survive in both very cold and very hot places?
    Synonyms
    homeothermic, homeothermal
  • 2Ardent; passionate.

    the warm-blooded sailor who sets out to win a girl
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This warm-blooded, passionate work was a challenge for unaccompanied singing and there were some beautiful moments, in particular the Pie Jesu.
    • Her musicality shines forth in her lyricism and she made an enchanting peasant Giselle and an ethereal but warm-blooded spirit.
    Synonyms
    passionate, ardent, red-blooded, hot-blooded, fervid, impetuous, emotional, intense, lively, spirited, fiery, tempestuous, hot, sultry, torrid
 
 
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