Amazon

Amazon
Amazon
Amazon1 [am′ə zän΄, am′əzən]
n.
[L < Gr Amazōn, of unknown orig., but deriv. by folk etym. < a-, without + mazos, breast, hence the story that the Amazons cut off one breast to facilitate archery]
1. Gr. Myth. any of a race of female warriors supposed to have lived in Scythia, near the Black Sea
2. [a-] a tall, strong, aggressive woman
3. a small, greenish parrot (genus Amazona) of Central and South America, often kept as a pet
4. any of a genus (Polyergus) of ants that makes slaves of other ants: also Amazon ant
Amazon2 [am′ə zän΄, am′əzən]
[so named by Spaniards, who believed its shores inhabited by female warriors: see AMAZON1]
river in South America, flowing from the Andes in Peru across N Brazil into the Atlantic: c. 4,000 mi (6,437 km)

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