Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a tiger in coloration: noting various striped or spotted animals, often translating the specific technical word tigrinus or tigrina. Also tigerine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Resembling the tiger in color.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the tiger.

Etymologies

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From Latin tigrīnus.

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