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Amazon1 definition

Ama·zon (am′ə zän′, -zən)

noun

  1. Gr. Myth. any of a race of female warriors supposed to have lived in Scythia, near the Black Sea
  2. 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

Etymology: 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

Amazon2 definition

Ama·zon (am′ə zän′, -zən)

river in South America, flowing from the Andes in Peru across N Brazil into the Atlantic: c. 4,000 mi (6,437 km)

Etymology: so named by Spaniards, who believed its shores inhabited by female warriors: see Amazon

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