: having a belly of a specified kind
—used in combination
a big-bellied man
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The Argentine black and white tegu lizard is like Godzilla compared to the blue bellied lizards and alligator lizards one typically sees in parks and trails around Northern California.
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Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 7 June 2025
Four redheads at Jamaica Pond and four more redheads at the Chestnut Hill Reservation, a rough-legged hawk and a glaucous gull at Rumney Marsh and a yellow-bellied sapsucker at Belle Isle.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
Fans soon speculated that George's watercolor was inspired by a greeting card from Wrendale Designs, showing a snowy stag with red-bellied robins perched in the same places.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 Dec. 2022
The days immediately after the quake have involved picking up the pieces of their lives, including locating and securing a place to stay for their pet pot-bellied pig, Elvis Pigsley, who used to reside in their backyard.
—Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2022
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Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 7 June 2025
Four redheads at Jamaica Pond and four more redheads at the Chestnut Hill Reservation, a rough-legged hawk and a glaucous gull at Rumney Marsh and a yellow-bellied sapsucker at Belle Isle.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
Fans soon speculated that George's watercolor was inspired by a greeting card from Wrendale Designs, showing a snowy stag with red-bellied robins perched in the same places.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 Dec. 2022
The days immediately after the quake have involved picking up the pieces of their lives, including locating and securing a place to stay for their pet pot-bellied pig, Elvis Pigsley, who used to reside in their backyard.
—Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2022
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“Bellied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bellied. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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