tigon
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tigon (plural tigons)
- A cross between a male tiger and a lioness.
- 1985, Hartson & Dawson, The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia, page 66:
- Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.
Translations
[edit]cross between a male tiger and a lioness
See also
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References
[edit]- “tigon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
Anagrams
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[edit]Noun
[edit]tigon
- accusative singular of tigo
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]tigon n or c
- a tigon (cat born to a male tiger and a lioness)
Usage notes
[edit]Neuter gender is based on the gender of lejon (a rare neuter-gendered animal), though common gender is intuitive as well (and appears in the media).
Declension
[edit]Declension of tigon
See also
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- English blends
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/aɪɡən
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- English lemmas
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- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Panthers
- en:Hybrids
- Esperanto non-lemma forms
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- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish nouns with multiple genders