Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The product of crossbreeding between a male lion and a female tiger, having features of both but generally being larger than either.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. offspring of a male lion and a female tiger
Etymologies
- Blend of lion and tiger (Wiktionary)
- li(on) + (ti)ger. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“February 1st, 2007 at 12: 51 am lol omg the liger is amazing molly and maid love it ahahahahahahaahahahaa well got to go”
“March 21st, 2006 at 7: 45 pm woah i never new most of these animals were real. but i think the liger is my favourite”
“March 22nd, 2006 at 4: 14 am the liger is pretty much my favourite animal hehehehehe”
“A liger is the largest cat of all the cat species.”
“October 3rd, 2007 at 12: 55 am that beau/liger is awsome”
“Heyy that liger is really cute i wish i had one as a pet!!!”
“Except that in this story, liger is apparently a trademarked word or something.”
“September 28th, 2006 at 8: 49 pm the liger is my favorite animal of all time. the other animals i feel sorry for, and those of yyou that get enjoyment from looking at stuff like this should go jump off a cliff or something because you wouldn’t like to be like those animals. otis barnibox Says:”
“The liger is the world’s largest cat, a cross breed between a male lion and a female tiger.”
“The liger is cute, but it’s sort of sad, because they even say that it’s conflicted … so it’s actcually sad.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘liger’.
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cats
alleycat, baudrons, bobcat, caracal, catamount, catamountain, cathood, catlike, cattish, cattishly, cheetah, chetah and 118 more...
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Animal Identity Crisis
Creatures that are described in terms of other animals. Usual rules apply: look at the entries and you'll get the hang of it :-) I could say 'no madeupicals' but, jeeperz, I'd have to put myself on...
squirrel fish, birddog, whale shark, leopard seal, rhinoceros beetle, parrotfish, lion tamarin, bumblebee bat, cow sharks, tiger moth, dogfish, smoothhound shark and 140 more...
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tHe Best Animals Ever
giraffe, elepant, cattle, water buffalo, langur monkey, baboon, lion, antelope, cheetah, tapeworm, kangaroo, bullfrog and 102 more...
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aujourdui's list
totally fantabulous words
wombat, spiffing, gnarly, splendiferous, yoda, rockocity, shmexy, rebrella, coolio, liger, ravenous, crudsicles and 12 more...
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animal hybrids
Only actual biologically possible hybrids are allowed.
cockapoo, zonkey, liger, tigon, zorse, cama, pizzly, grolar bear, leopon, wolfphin, labradoodle, mule and 12 more...
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wickedwitch's list
lll
alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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figments
denizens of the imagination (non-human, mostly).
an offshoot of animaliabandersnatch, gnome, fairy, elf, troll, ent, hobbit, dwarf, orc, ogre, gollum, basilisk and 78 more...
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things that freak me out (animals)
( _mark, personal list )
mexican mole lizard, peafoul, verreaux's sifaka, seapig, basket star, blobfish, proboscis monkey, hairy frog, cobra, alpaca, salamander, silkie and 37 more...
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Animal Crackers
camel, dromedary, cabbit, doglet, wren, lynx, ermine, capybara, magpie, mallard, heron, loach and 33 more...
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Animals
bloodhound, cat, kitty, tabby, feline, kitten, lion, tiger, wild-cat, leopard, panther, jaguar and 57 more...
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zoology
animals of interest
sloth, kakapo, kaka, hoatzin, numbat, wombat, hyena, wallaby, emu, morepork, jackdaw, magpie and 73 more...
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real ones i never knew until now
... what i've learned from wordie
brummagem, lede, gynotikolobomasso..., battology, cete, tigon, liger, beteem, albedo, zugunruhe, borborygmi, borborygmic and 6 more...
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tsherel's Words
yardie, mandeville, manchester, bogle, masai, gist, wiki, linux, pilonidal, adenoid, nerd, loser and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for liger.
biocon Remember. The Salt Lake City zoo is designated the Hogle Zoo. Jun 28, 2011
hernesheir I haven't been in the Bean Museum since just before Arthur Cronquist expired in the herbarium, nor the SLC zoo since before that. Perhaps my liger locator is way out of date. Jun 27, 2011
milosrdenstvi Is not the mounted liger sounds like an excellent first line for a poem. Jun 27, 2011
biocon Is not the mounted liger to which you refer now situated in the Monte L. Bean Museum at Brigham Young University? Jun 27, 2011
hernesheir A stuffed liger resides at the Salt Lake City zoo. It was bred and lived there until its demise. Given their SE Idaho and northern Utah connections, chances are good that the writers of Napoleon Dynamite had seen that cat at some point in their young lives. Jun 27, 2011
uselessness Aren't you supposed to be teaching? ;-) Jan 17, 2008
jennarenn There are rummored to be photos of me in full Napoleon regalia, doing The Dance. I had a 'fro, a lame 80s t-shirt, boots, and a liger name-tag. They will not be uploaded onto this site.
P.S. Hooray for Wordie at work. Don't know when that happened. :)
Jan 17, 2008
arcadia "So it's mother is a lion and it's father is a tiger?"
"What?! Nho! You're thinking of a ti-on. They're totally lame".
(Something like that, it's been a while since I saw that on the N.D. special features). Jan 17, 2008
uselessness "It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic." Jan 17, 2008