warm-blooded animals

1. Animals, such as mammals and birds , that maintain a constant body temperature regardless of the temperature of the surroundings. ( Compare cold-blooded animals .)

Example Sentences

Is produced from the females of all the warm-blooded animals, which are enumerated among the mammali.

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They are warm-blooded animals and not fish at all, so they must come to the top of the waves for air to breathe.

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Naturally it is much more difficult to restore life in the case of warm-blooded animals.

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It would appear that various warm-blooded animals are capable of sustaining total abstinence much longer than human beings.

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The birds are warm-blooded animals, and even their young, while they are developing in the egg, are warm-blooded.

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