Definitions

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  • noun A female liger.

Etymologies

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liger +‎ -ess

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Examples

  • I will try it ligress awesome! i can just see using this for next year's cards and photoalbums..

    Turn Handwriting into a Font with YourFont « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2009

  • Zoo officials hope six-year-old Zita the ligress could breed with a lion in the Novosibirsk Zoo, who is believed to be a descendent of the big scary-looking black-maned beast that roamed the slopes of Cape Province and modern Cape Town.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • The ligress, a "love child" of an African lion and Bengal tigress, cannot have liger cubs due to genetic peculiarities of the hybrid.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • Zoo officials hope six-year-old Zita the ligress could breed with a lion in the Novosibirsk Zoo, who is believed to be a descendent of the big scary-looking black-maned beast that roamed the slopes of Cape Province and modern Cape Town.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • The ligress, a "love child" of an African lion and Bengal tigress, cannot have liger cubs due to genetic peculiarities of the hybrid.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • Zoo officials hope six-year-old Zita the ligress could breed with a lion in the Novosibirsk Zoo, who is believed to be a descendent of the big scary-looking black-maned beast that roamed the slopes of Cape Province and modern Cape Town.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • The ligress, a "love child" of an African lion and Bengal tigress, cannot have liger cubs due to genetic peculiarities of the hybrid.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • Zoo officials hope six-year-old Zita the ligress could breed with a lion in the Novosibirsk Zoo, who is believed to be a descendent of the big scary-looking black-maned beast that roamed the slopes of Cape Province and modern Cape Town.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • The ligress, a "love child" of an African lion and Bengal tigress, cannot have liger cubs due to genetic peculiarities of the hybrid.

    RIA Novosti 2010

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  • my ravishingly adorable girlfriend

    December 12, 2006

  • Hmm, this isn't on google... Is a female liger?

    December 12, 2006