Amazon2

 
Pronunciation: /ˈaməz(ə)n/

noun

  • 1a member of a legendary race of female warriors believed by the ancient Greeks to exist in Scythia or elsewhere on the edge of the known world.
  • a very tall and strong or athletic woman.
  • 2 (amazon) a parrot, typically green, found in Central and South America.
    • Genus Amazona, family Psittacidae: numerous species

Derivatives

Amazonian

Pronunciation: /aməˈzəʊnɪən/
adjective

Origin:

late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Amazōn, explained by the Greeks as 'without a breast' (as if from a- 'without' + mazos 'breast'), referring to the fable that the Amazons cut off the right breast so as not to interfere with the use of a bow, but probably a folk etymology of an unknown foreign word