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red-bellied, a.
Having a red belly.
Frequent in the names of American birds and fishes.
1709J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 126 Red-bellied Land-Snakes. 1731M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 19 The Red-bellied Wood-pecker... The belly near the vent..is stained with red. 1743G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds I. 22 The Red-belly'd Blue-Bird. 1782Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 485 Red-bellied Curucui, Trogon Curucui. 1808Wilson Amer. Ornith. I. 43 Red-bellied black-capt nuthatch, Sitta varia. Ibid. 114 Red-bellied woodpecker, Picus Carolinus. 1819Warden United States II. 411 The..red-bellied land snake. 1847Audubon & Bachman Vivip. Quadrup. N. Amer. I. 292 Red-bellied Squirrel. 1876Goode in Smithson. Coll. XIII. vi. 60 Red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa). 1917T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. II. 161/2 The Red-bellied Woodpecker..evinces a decided taste for fruit. 1934Dylan Thomas Let. 15 Apr. (1966) 108 If there must be a worm in our letters let it be the jolly, red⁓bellied one you told me about. 1965Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 3 June (1970) 281 Most startling of all was a fish whose every scale stood out..the red-bellied angelfish. 1973M. R. Crowell Greener Pastures 109 It is the red-bellied woodpecker that visited the feeder last week. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds iv. 75 Of snakes the variety was almost endless..red-bellied black snakes. |