1. Having or showing a ready disposition to fight
   "bellicose young officers"
   - battleful, combative

See also: aggressive

• Southern Tai
• Southern Triangle
• southern white cedar
• southern yellow pine
• Southerner
• southernism
• southernmost
• southernness
• southernwood
• Southey
• southing
• southland
• southmost
• southpaw
• southward
• southwards
• southwest
• southwest by south
• southwest by west
• southwester
• southwesterly
• southwestern
• southwestern lip fern
• southwestern toad
• southwestern United States