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   Amazon

   /ˈaməz(ə)n/

   noun

   • 1. a member of a legendary race of female warriors believed by the ancient Greeks to exist in Scythia (near the Black Sea in modern Russia) or elsewhere on the edge of the known world.
   • ▪ a very tall and strong or athletic woman.
   • 2. a parrot, typically green, found in Central and South America.

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Amazōn, explained by the Greeks as ‘without a breast’ (as if from a- ‘without’ + mazos ‘breast’), referring to the fable that the Amazons cut off the right breast so as not to interfere with the use of a bow, but probably a folk etymology of an unknown foreign word.

   Scrabble Points: 17

   • A

     1

   • M

     3

   • A

     1

   • Z

     10

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

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