tiger

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  1. noun A large carnivorous feline mammal (Panthera tigris) of Asia, having a tawny coat with transverse black stripes.
  2. noun Any of various similar wild felines, such as the jaguar, mountain lion, or lynx.
  3. noun A person regarded as aggressive, audacious, or fierce.

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  • Logan had always suspected it would come down to whether the tiger was attacking Yura or someone else. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Logan had always suspected it would come down to whether the tiger was attacking Yura or someone else The gun was mainly for another sort of protection. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2005
  • Taiga is a play on the English word "tiger," for which "tora" is the Japanese equivalent, and the Ryuu in Ryuuji means "dragon," or when written out in Japanese romaji, doragon. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • The penalty for mistakenly thinking they saw what appeared to be a tiger was a little extra exercise. —  RealClimate
  • In the zodiac circle the tiger is the third year and it comes back after twelve years. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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tiger:   tigers
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  1. Middle English tigre, from Old English tigras, tigers, and from Old French tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Greek, of Iranian origin; see steig- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also tyger, tigre, tygre; from Middle English tigre, tygre, from Old French tigre, tygre, French tigre = Spanish Italian tigre, masculine, tigra, feminine, = Portuguese tigre, masculine, = Dutch tijger = G. Danish Swedish tiger = Bohemian tigr = Polish tygrys = Russian tigrŭ, from Latin tigris, from Greek τίγρις, a tiger; apparently a foreign word, perhaps from OPers. (Zend) *tīghri, a tiger, a supposed particular use (in allusion to the swiftness with which the tiger leaps upon his prey) of tīghri, *tīgra, Persian tīr, an arrow (cf. Sanskrit tīvra, tīr, Hindustani tīr, an arrow), from tighra, sharp, from √ stig, Sanskrit √ tij, sharp: see stick. Cf. Latin Tigris, from Greek Τίγρις, from OPers. Tigra, Persian Tīr, the river Tigris, literally ‘the river Arrow,’ so called from its swiftness.
 

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