warm-blooded
- a having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated)
- Since bugs are cold-blooded invertebrates, more of what they consume goes to building edible body parts, whereas pigs and other warm-blooded vertebrates need to consume a lot of .
- This structure, scientists explain, suggests that the dinosaur in question was warm-blooded, like birds and mammals, rather than cold-blooded, like snakes and lizards.
- Maybe dinosaurs were warm-blooded after all.