warm-blooded | Idiomator

Meaning: (zoology)Maintainingarelativelyconstantandwarmbody temperature, regardless of theambienttemperature;endothermic.1858October, [George Henry Lewes], “Animal Heat”, inBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LXXXIV, number DXVI, Edinburgh:William Blackwood & Sons,page427, column 1:The cold-blooded animals are all feeble breathers, and the most energetic breathers are thewarmest-blooded. A mollusc, a fish, a frog, a quadruped, and a bird, represent the various stages of this correspondence.1925September,Glover Morrill Allen, “Feathers”, inBirds and Their Attributes, Boston, Mass.: Marshall Jones Company, published February1937,page37:Moreover, instead of hibernating like our northern reptiles, they [birds] are able to remain active all winter, even in arctic latitudes, so long as sufficient food is available to maintain the body. This retention of heat increases the body temperature, and implies an increase as well of the creature’s activity, so that birds in addition to being thewarmest-bloodedanimals are at the same time the quickest and most active.2016,Barry Eisler,Livia Lone, Seattle, Wash.:Thomas & Mercer,→ISBN,page 6:“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’rewarmer-bloodedthan I am. Could I have my sweatshirt now?”2016, Fiona Buckley [pseudonym;Valerie Anand],The Heretic’s Creed(The Ursula Blanchard Mysteries), Sutton, Surrey:Crème de la Crime,→ISBN,page73:We stood there, shivering, colder even than when we had been on our horses, for horses arewarmer-bloodedthan their riders, and one always gains heat from them.; (idiomatic)Passionate.2003,Adele Griffin,Witch Twins and Melody Malady, New York, N.Y.:Hyperion Books for Children,→ISBN,page27:Claire jumped from her chair and smiled thewarmest-bloodedsmile that she could muster.2006,Donald Bain,A Question of Murder(Murder, She Wrote), New York, N.Y.: Signet,New American Library,→ISBN,page35:Chasseur said, “Murder is a grisly, nasty business, Jessica. The female species simply doesn’t have the genetic makeup to deal sensibly with it. Murder is a cold-blooded act. Women are, by nature,warmer-bloodedthan men, which is why they’re so attractive to the male of the species.”

Examples:

EN: It can fly, hang by its claws from branches, and climb head downwards. By night, it attacks warm-blooded beasts... especially horses, cattle and their keepers.
ES: Vuela, se cuelga de las ramas, utiliza sus garras para escalar de cabeza... las paredes, los árboles o las cercas de alambre... y por la noche, ataca a animales de sangre caliente, sobre todo a caballos, al ganado y a sus cuidadores.
EN: You're a warm-blooded woman.
ES: Tú eres una mujer de sangre caliente.
EN: - No, it seems this monster originated from the depths of the ocean to soar landward in search of warm-blooded victims.
ES: - No, parece que este monstruo se originó desde las profundidades del océano para volar hacia la tierra en busca de víctimas de sangre caliente.
EN: You must be a warm-blooded boy.
ES: Debes ser un chico de sangre caliente.
EN: Not warm-blooded.
ES: No tiene sangre caliente.
EN: These warm-blooded animals survived, until almost man-like creatures appear.
ES: Los animales de sangre caliente evolucionaron hasta la aparición de los homínidos.
EN: One day, a true humanoid species, warm-blooded, with a central nervous system.
ES: Algún día, un verdadero humanoide vendrá. Con sangre caliente y con sistema nervioso central.
EN: It falls from a leaf onto a warm-blooded animal. It sucks the blood and falls to the ground when it's full.
ES: Cae de una hoja... sobre un animal de sangre caliente.
EN: The new tick climbs the tree and waits for a warm-blooded animal.
ES: La nueva garrapata trepa al árbol... y espera a que pase... un animal de sangre caliente.
EN: A warm-blooded, intelligent mammal!
ES: y tiene inteligencia para comunicarse con sus congeneres
EN: Others are warm-blooded too and they too can be carried away.
ES: Otros son la sangre demasiado caliente y también se pueden tomar.
EN: Birds are warm-blooded.
ES: Las aves son de sangre caliente.
EN: And then, amongst those small creatures, there were warm-blooded, inconspicuous little animals that fed on insects.
ES: Entre aquellas pequeñas criaturas había algunos pequeños insectívoros de sangre caliente.
EN: So a warm-blooded animal must eat much more food than a normal reptile and digest it fairly rapidly.
ES: Un animal de sangre caliente necesita comer mucho más que un reptil normal y digerir rápidamente.
EN: Living in holes in their trunks and scurrying around in the beech leaves on the floor are small, warm-blooded, furry creatures that bear their young in the same way as the American opossums:
ES: Viviendo en agujeros en los troncos y corriendo entre hojas de haya en el suelo, están estas pequeñas criaturas de sangre caliente y peludas, llevando a sus cachorros como zarigüeyas americanas: marsupiales.

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