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Amazon Meaning & Definition
Amazon Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Amazon?

[n] mainly green tropical American parrots
[n] a major South American river; flows into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles)
[n] (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
[n] a large strong and aggressive woman

Synonyms | Synonyms for Amazon: Amazon River | virago

Related Terms | Find terms related to Amazon: androgyne | butch | colossus | dyke | fishwife | giant | harpy | hoyden | lesbian | ogress | romp | scold | shrew | termagant | titan | tomboy | virago | vixen | Xanthippe

See Also | adult female | Amazona | Brasil | Brazil | Federative Republic of Brazil | genus Amazona | mythical being | parrot | Peru | Republic of Peru | river | woman

Amazon In Webster's Dictionary

\Am"a*zon\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] 1. One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior. 2. A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago. 3. (Zo["o]l.) A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus {Chrysotis} {Amazon ant} (Zo["o]l.), a species of ant ({Polyergus rufescens}), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larv[ae] and nymphs of other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

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