1. A large strong and aggressive woman
   - virago 
2. Mainly green tropical American parrots

1. (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) 
2. A major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles)
   - Amazon River

Derived forms: amazons, Amazons

Type of: adult female, mythical being, parrot, river, woman

Part of: Amazona, Brasil, Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil, genus Amazona, Peru, Republic of Peru

Encyclopedia: Amazon

• order Podicipediformes
• order Podicipitiformes
• order Polemoniales
• order Polygonales
• order Polymastigina
• order Polypodiales
• order Primates
• order Primulales
• order Proboscidea
• order Procellariiformes
• order Proteales
• order Protura
• order Pseudomonadales
• order Pseudoscorpiones
• order Pseudoscorpionida
• order Psilophytales
• order Psilotales
• order Psittaciformes
• order Psocoptera
• order Pterosauria
• order Pulmonata
• order Pycnogonida
• order Radiolaria
• order Rajiformes
• order Ranales