tiger : Idioms & Phrases

• . (Zoöl.) (a) The puma. (b) The jaguar.

Webster 1913

• noun striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases
  Aedes albopictus.
  

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• noun southern short-haired tiger
  

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• . (Zoöl.). See Tiger.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a handsome striped and spotted carnivore (Felis macrocelis or F. marmorata) native of the East Indies and Southern Asia. Its body is about three and a half feet long, and its tail about three feet long. Its ground color is brownish gray, and the dark markings are irregular stripes, spots, and rings, but there are always two dark bands on the face, one extending back from the eye, and one from the angle of the mouth. Called also tortoise-shell tiger.

Webster 1913

• noun lily of western North America with showy orange-red purple-spotted flowers
  Oregon lily; Lilium columbianum.
  

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• noun North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon
  

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• noun a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
  Tigers; LTTE; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; World Tamil Association; World Tamil Movement.
  
  • the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war

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• (Zoöl.), the jaguar.

Webster 1913

• noun the nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual
  
  • he reminded Mao that the paper tiger had nuclear teeth

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• . (Zoöl.) See Tiger.

Webster 1913

• noun any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene
  sabertooth.
  

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• noun shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic; sometimes dangerous to swimmers
  Odontaspis taurus; sand shark; Carcharias taurus.
  

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• noun a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
  Tigers; LTTE; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; World Tamil Association; World Tamil Movement.
  
  • the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war

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• (Zoöl.), the wallah.

Webster 1913

• noun rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct
  Thylacinus cynocephalus; Tasmanian wolf; thylacine.
  

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• noun active usually bright-colored beetle that preys on other insects
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of active carnivorous beetles of the family Cicindelidæ. They usually inhabit dry or sandy places, and fly rapidly.

Webster 1913

• . (Zoöl.) See Sun bittern, under Sun.

Webster 1913

• noun medium-sized wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-striped coat
  Felis tigrina.
  
• noun a cat having a striped coat
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wild cats of moderate size with dark transverse bars or stripes somewhat resembling those of the tiger.

Webster 1913

• noun cowrie whose shell is used for ornament
  Cypraea tigris.
  

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• noun a young tiger
  

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• (Bot.), an iridaceous plant of the genus Tigridia (as T. conchiflora, T. grandiflora, etc.) having showy flowers, spotted or streaked somewhat like the skin of a tiger.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), a low East Indian fan palm (Chamærops Ritchieana). It is used in many ways by the natives. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

Webster 1913

• noun east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals
  Lilium lancifolium; kentan; devil lily.
  
• noun lily of southeastern United States having cup-shaped flowers with deep yellow to scarlet recurved petals
  pine lily; leopard lily; Lilium catesbaei.
  

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• . (Bot.) See under Lily.

Webster 1913

• noun medium-sized moth with long richly colored and intricately patterned wings; larvae are called woolly bears
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of moths of the family Arctiadæ which are striped or barred with black and white or with other conspicuous colors. The larvæ are called woolly bears.

Webster 1913

• noun having irregularly cross-banded back; of arid foothills and canyons of southern Arizona and Mexico
  Crotalus tigris.
  

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• noun widely distributed brown or black North American salamander with vertical yellowish blotches
  Ambystoma tigrinum.
  

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• noun large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body
  Galeocerdo cuvieri.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a voracious shark (Galeocerdo maculatus ∨ tigrinus) more or less barred or spotted with yellow. It is found in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Called also zebra shark.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a large and conspicuously spotted cowrie (Cypræa tigris); so called from its fancied resemblance to a tiger in color and markings. Called also tiger cowrie.

Webster 1913

• noun highly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania
  Notechis scutatus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the spotted hyena (Hyæna crocuta).

Webster 1913

• the variegated heartwood of a tree (Machærium Schomburgkii) found in Guiana.

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Ti"ger's-foot` noun

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1. (Bot.) A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.

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Ti"ger-eye` noun

Definitions

1. (Min.) A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.

Webster 1913

Ti"ger-foot` noun

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1. (Bot.) Same as Tiger's-foot.

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Ti"ger-foot`ed adjective

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1. Hastening to devour; furious.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite having stripes resembling those of a tiger
  

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• (Zoöl.), a leopard.

Webster 1913

Wa"ter ti"ger

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1. (Zoöl.) A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.

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