Ligress

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female liger.

    "Colette has rescued cougars, bobcats, jaguars, panthers, tigers, lions--and even a ligress --a cross between a lion and a tiger."

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"Colette has rescued cougars, bobcats, jaguars, panthers, tigers, lions--and even a ligress --a cross between a lion and a tiger."

Etymology

From liger + -ess.

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