amazon

Meanings

Plural: amazons

Noun

• a large strong and aggressive woman
• (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)
• a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles)
• mainly green tropical American parrots
• a tall, strong, athletic woman
• a fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight
• an amazon parrot
• a position for vaginal sex in which the insertive partner lies on their back with their knees pulled back, and the receptive partner, facing the other person, squats onto the penis

Synonyms

Amazon River, virago

Antonyms

mating press

Related Words

amazonian, Amazonian