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warm-blooded

adj

Etymology

From warm + blooded.

  1. inherited from bloded
  2. compounded as warm-blooded — “warm + blooded”

Definitions

  1. Maintaining a relatively constant and warm body temperature, regardless of the ambient…

    Maintaining a relatively constant and warm body temperature, regardless of the ambient temperature; endothermic.

    • The cold-blooded animals are all feeble breathers, and the most energetic breathers are the warmest-blooded. A mollusc, a fish, a frog, a quadruped, and a bird, represent the various stages of this correspondence.
    • “It’s getting chilly,” the Asian chick said, maybe just to hear the sound of her own voice. […] / “Oh, I don’t know. Feels all right to me.” / “I guess you’re warmer-blooded than I am. Could I have my sweatshirt now?”

  2. Passionate.

    • Claire jumped from her chair and smiled the warmest-blooded smile that she could muster.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at warm-blooded. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at warm-blooded. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at warm-blooded

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA