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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 tiger
Familiarity information: TIGRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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