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TIGRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tigress mean? 

TIGRESS (noun)
  The noun TIGRESS has 1 sense:

1. a female tigerplay

  Familiarity information: TIGRESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TIGRESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A female tiger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tigress" is a kind of...):

Panthera tigris; tiger (large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered)


 Context examples 


"She worried me like a tigress, when Rochester got the knife from her."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Alleyne stared open-eyed at this tigress who had sprung so suddenly to his rescue.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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