Amazon

am′az-on, n. one of a fabled nation of female warriors: a masculine woman: a virago.— adj. Amazō′nian , of or like an Amazon: of masculine manners: warlike. [Popular Gr. ety. from a , neg., mazos , a breast—they being fabled to cut off the right breast that they might draw the bow to its head (of course all this is idle); some have suggested an original in the Circa ian maza , the moon.]