Having a belly or abdominal area of a particular kind, often used in compounds like 'pot-bellied' or 'white-bellied'.
From 'belly' (Old English 'belg' meaning bag or pouch) plus the suffix '-ied' meaning 'having' or 'characterized by'. The term evolved to describe animals or people with distinctive belly features.
This suffix-based adjective shows how English reuses word parts—you can attach '-bellied' to almost any color or descriptor to create vivid animal descriptions, like how naturalists say 'yellow-bellied' for a coward (since snakes with yellow bellies were considered timid).
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