Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like a tiger in coloration: noting various striped or spotted animals, often translating the specific technical word tigrinus or tigrina. Also tigerine.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the tiger.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Resembling the tiger in color.
Etymologies
- From Latin tigrīnus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But the characters in this book, both human and tigrine, are more nuanced.”
The Washington Post: Review of John Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival"
“And now eyes and face and hair, and Madame le Claire -- all passed away; and Florian Amidon became as naught, and the tigrine lady and the faded professor played with the thing which had been he, as upon a machine.”
“The tigrine Le Claire advanced from a bay-window, bringing a slender man with stooped shoulders.”
“She was gowned once more in the yellow and black, and stood in tigrine splendor cap-a-pie.”
“Dim reminiscences of such a figure sitting in shadowy background, while a glorious tigrine woman ruled over some realm only half-cognized, vexed the crepuscular and terror-breeding reaches of his mind.”
“With tigrine claw thou mangiest my speech, thy cheeks are like”
“With tigrine claw thou mangiest my speech, thy cheeks are like December's pippin, and thy tongue most sour! ”
“Every government that fell for the tigrine wiles emerged from peace traps with a bloody nose.”
“So it was that, about the time when Elizabeth Waldron sat in the summer-house at Bellevale, with tears of disappointment in her pretty eyes, holding poor Florian's best-he-could-do but ineffective letter all crumpled up in her hand, the tigrine Le Claire rested her elbows upon a window-ledge in the attitude of gazing into the street (it was all attitude, for she saw nothing), and was disturbed by Aaron, who brought in Mr. Florian Amidon's penciled card.”
“1656-1891 OW 1891 OW noctilionine bat 1844 tigrine tiger 1656-1908”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tigrine’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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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 Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
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Beastly adjectives
How would you describe your brother-in-law? Is he a tad bovine? Maybe there is something lacertilian about him? Or his business practices seem a little percesocine to you.
dasyproctine, tolypeutine, asinine, feline, canine, eusuchian, simian, musteline, cervine, caprine, percesocine, hirudine and 227 more...
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Animal-ine
feline, leonine, vulpine, canine, ranine, elephantine, serpentine, cervine, ovine, porcine, aquinine, asinine and 171 more...
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Animaline
Animal words ending in -ine
bovine, porcine, taurine, ursine, leonine, murcine, piscine, elephantine, serpentine, vulpine, zebrine, feline and 16 more...
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Colours
mauve, sallow, tawny, russet, opalescent, raven, ruddy, maroon, prismatic, nacreous, inky, iridescent and 21 more...
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Animal -ines cheat sheet
As I compiled this list, I thought it would be so much nicer to show a short definition with each. If I was looking for a particular animal, I would have to click each one which may or may not give...
vulpine, porcine, lupine, picine, lyncine, bovine, feline, equine, canine, leporine, asinine, piscine and 29 more...
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