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Tigrine

Tigrine \Ti"grine\, a. [L. tigrinus, fr. tigris a tiger.]

  1. Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat ( Felis tigrina) of South America.

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tigrine

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.