ligress
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]ligress (plural ligresses)
- A female liger.
- 1994 December 6, Tim May, “Waystation Trying to Save Tigers in Ireland”, in Los Angeles Times:
- Colette has rescued cougars, bobcats, jaguars, panthers, tigers, lions--and even a ligress --a cross between a lion and a tiger.
- 2008, Brandon Griggs, Utah Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Insiders' Guide, published 2008, →ISBN, page 128:
- Called Shasta because "she hasta" have this and "she hasta" have that, the bossy liger — she was a ligress, to be more precise — was one of the zoo's most beloved and famous residents before she died in 1972 at the ripe age of twenty-four.
- 2012 September 11, “The rarest big cat in the world needs a normal moggy as her foster mum”, in The Siberian Times:
- There are a number of cases of ligers and ligresses in the world but experts say it is impossible for males to conceive and exceptionally rare for females to give birth.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ligress.
Translations
[edit]female liger
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