breasted
adj/ˈbɹɛstɪd/ · /ˈbɹɛstəd/
Etymology From breast + -ed.
1
Having a breast, or breasts.
- He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11:
2
In compounds Having a specified kind of breast or covering.
- The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the Black-breasted Red, with fawn-breasted partridge hens; the Brown-breasted Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the Red-breasted Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.1884, Charles Louis Flint, The American Farmer, page 480:
- Derived terms
38 terms
bar-breasted honeyeater, bare-breasted, big-breasted, black-breasted leaf turtle, black-breasted quail, blue-breasted fairywren, buff-breasted sandpiper, chestnut-breasted mannikin, chicken-breasted, cinnamon-breasted tit, double-breasted, full-breasted, golden-breasted fulvetta, green-breasted pitta, lilac-breasted roller, open-breasted, pigeon-breasted, plain-breasted hawk, red-breasted flycatcher, red-breasted goose, red-breasted merganser, red-breasted sapsucker, rose-breasted cockatoo, rose-breasted grosbeak, rufous-breasted sparrowhawk, scaly-breasted lorikeet, single-breasted, slaty-breasted tinamou, spot-breasted lapwing, stripe-breasted tit, tawny-breasted tinamou, white-breasted hawk, white-breasted nuthatch, white-breasted sea eagle, white-breasted waterhen, yellow-breasted bunting, yellow-breasted chat, yellow-breasted greenfinch