"warm-blooded" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-warm-blooded.ogg [Australia] Forms: more warm-blooded [comparative], warmer-blooded [comparative], most warm-blooded [superlative], warmest-blooded [superlative]
Etymology: warm + blooded Etymology templates: {{compound|en|warm|blooded}} warm + blooded Head templates: {{en-adj|more|warmer-blooded|sup2=warmest-blooded}} warm-blooded (comparative more warm-blooded or warmer-blooded, superlative most warm-blooded or warmest-blooded)
  1. (zoology) Maintaining a relatively constant and warm body temperature, regardless of the ambient temperature; endothermic. Categories (topical): Zoology
    Sense id: en-warm-blooded-en-adj-4bVNAlfI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 94 6 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 89 11 Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
  2. (idiomatic) Passionate. Tags: idiomatic Translations (passionate): темпераментен (temperamenten) (Bulgarian), kuumaverinen (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-warm-blooded-en-adj-5CLOo3vL Disambiguation of 'passionate': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: endothermic, homeothermic, warmblooded Related terms: hot-blooded

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