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Definition of Red-blooded
1. Adjective. Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health. "A hearty glow of health"
Similar to: Healthy
Derivative terms: Heartiness, Lustiness
Definition of Red-blooded
1. Adjective. Exhibiting healthy vigor or spirit; hearty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red-blooded
Literary usage of Red-blooded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Red blooded. Bronson, EB $1.50. McClurg. Red book; or, The story of Red Jacket
and the Recent progress In the study of variation, heredity, and evolution. ..."
2. Footprints of the Creator: Or the Asterolepis of Stromness by Hugh Miller (1872)
"True it is that, according to one principle of classification, now grown somewhat
obsolete, men and earthworms are equally red-blooded animals; ..."
3. The Principles of animal and vegetable physiology: A Popular Treatise on the by John Stevenson Bushnan (1854)
"THE BLOOD IN red-blooded ANIMALS. By a happy phrase the blood has been described
as " circulating fle^h," or chair coulant. It ranks with the fluids; ..."
4. On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man by John Kidd (1833)
"And thus he establishes a fundamental natural division, answering to the red-blooded
and white-blooded animals of modern zoology: and it is of great ..."
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