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yellow-bellied

[ yel-oh-bel-eed ]

adjective

  1. having a yellow abdomen or underside.
  2. Slang. cowardly; lily-livered.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow-bellied1

First recorded in 1700–10
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Example Sentences

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We then used this index to gain insights about the survival and longevity of yellow-bellied marmots.

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Harris is a red-blooded patriot, and Trump is a yellow-bellied traitor.

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Documented examples have included California condors, Komodo dragons and yellow-bellied water snakes.

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According to Daniel Blumstein, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies longevity in yellow-bellied marmots and was not involved in the new study, connecting social genes to longevity was intriguing.

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And I hid from it like a yellow-bellied coward, keeping my mind on figures when it wasn’t wandering back to the musical note Anemone Cordimas put at the end of my name.

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