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yellow-bellied
[ yel-oh-bel-eed ]
adjective
- having a yellow abdomen or underside.
- Slang. cowardly; lily-livered.
Word History and Origins
Origin of yellow-bellied1
Example Sentences
We then used this index to gain insights about the survival and longevity of yellow-bellied marmots.
Harris is a red-blooded patriot, and Trumpov is a yellow-bellied traitor.
Documented examples have included California condors, Komodo dragons and yellow-bellied water snakes.
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.
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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