Amazonian

[ am-uh-zoh-nee-uhn ]

adjective

1. (of a woman) characteristic of or like an Amazon; powerful and aggressive; warlike.
2. pertaining to the Amazon River or the country adjacent to it.

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the area adjoining the Amazon River.

Amazonian

/ æməˈzəʊnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Amazon river, the land around it, or the inhabitants of this land

Word History and Origins

Origin of Amazonian¹

First recorded in 1585–95; Amazon + -ian

Example Sentences

An Amazonian plant has had botanists scratching their heads since 1973.

From Popular-Science

The source material, published between 1973 and 2019, tried to quantify how much wild meat, including many species of mammals and birds, contributed to the diets of a total of 150,000 people living in the Amazonian and Afro-tropical areas.

From Ars Technica

The gut is basically an Amazonian forest, densely populated by microbes of all sorts—bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

From Singularity Hub 

Jeff Bezos and his Amazonian empire may want to learn something from today’s Parthian equivalents and never underestimate an opponent, no matter how outnumbered they may seem.

From Ozy

Going forward, the Amazonian capital could now help public health officials better understand how long immunity to covid-19 lasts and how often the virus reinfects people.

From MIT Technology Review

By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast.

From The Daily Beast

In 1993, some 73 Yanomami Indians died in clashes with Amazonian gold miners.

From The Daily Beast

Dr. Amy Lehman is the Amazonian like surgeon whose mission is to build a state of the art medical clinic--on a boat.

From The Daily Beast

Television to develop a take on the lasso-happy Amazonian warrior.

From The Daily Beast

Amazonian Field, by Antony Gormley, is one particularly evocative example.

From The Daily Beast

In Dahomey the Amazonian guards of the king perform all military duty with equal ease and thoroughness with men.

From Project Gutenberg

Her vigour was truly Amazonian, and at no time had I ever occasion to contend with a more formidable opponent.

From Project Gutenberg

Those who have traversed the Amazonian forests have made the same remark.

From Project Gutenberg

But she was, nevertheless, a heroine of the Amazonian species.

From Project Gutenberg

These found themselves 'courageously resisted by the towns-men and-women, Amazonian-like.'

From Project Gutenberg