The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tigrine \Ti"grine\, a. [L. tigrinus, fr. tigris a tiger.]
Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
(Zo["o]l.) Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat ( Felis tigrina) of South America.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the tiger.
Usage examples of "tigrine".
The tigrine Le Claire advanced from a bay-window, bringing a slender man with stooped shoulders.
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.
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.
She was gowned once more in the yellow and black, and stood in tigrine splendor cap-a-pie.