Definition of "bellicose"

CHINA sent both bellicose and conciliatory signals yesterday as tension continued in the Taiwan Strait over Chinese military exercises and the deployment of US naval battle groups.

1996 March 15, James Pringle, “Peking sends out mixed signals”, in The Times‎, number 65,528, Overseas News, page 14, column 8

The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).

2012 July 12, Sam Adams, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, in AV Club