: having a belly of a specified kind—used in combination
a big-bellied man
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Recent Examples on the WebAlong the way, she got married a few times and collected more than fifty rescue animals—dogs, cats, rabbits, and a miniature pot-bellied pig. Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022 The conservancy is also building bat houses and considering reintroducing threatened and rare native animal species, such as northern red-bellied turtles, said Diana Ruiz, the Native Land Conservancy’s director. Philip Marcelo, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2022 This year, two groups of researchers, led by Pinho and Wilkinson, respectively, published some of the most convincing data on that front to date, on yellow-bellied marmots and big brown bats. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2022 Guston worked in the streaky, pale-bellied tones of an unhealthy white man’s skin, which is to say of his own. Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022 Some squirrel species — the yellow-bellied marmot, for example — have been found to benefit from being less social.Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2022 At times the clouds seemed swollen and dark-bellied, as if laden with rain. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 May 2022 Hampden County: The area hosted a Barrow’s goldeneye on the Connecticut River in Chicopee, lingers included a gray catbird at Laughing Brook Sanctuary and a yellow-bellied sapsucker in Springfield.BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022 Local observers reported black vultures in Milton and Canton, and two yellow-bellied sapsuckers at Hall’s Pond in Brookline in addition to one at Moose Hill Sanctuary in Sharon.BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2022 See More