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Adjective: yellow-bellied  'ye-low'be-leed
Usage: informal
  1. Easily frightened
    "It was long tank with three European fire-bellied and three yellow-bellied toads";
    - chicken [informal], chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, chicken-livered

See also: cowardly, fearful

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yellow trumpet
yellow turnip
yellow twining snapdragon
yellow vetchling
yellow warbler
yellow water flag
yellow water lily
yellow watercress
yellow-banded
yellow-beige
yellow-bellied
yellow-bellied sapsucker
yellow-bellied terrapin
yellow-belly
yellowbelly marmot
yellowbird
yellow-blindness
yellow-blue color blindness
yellow-blue colour blindness
yellow-blue dichromacy
yellow-breasted bunting