tiger
- noun
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A very large wild cat from Asia with orange fur and black stripes that hunts other animals.
The tiger padded silently through the tall wet grass.
Tigers can swim well and often cross wide rivers.
No two tigers have exactly the same pattern of stripes.
Fewer than four thousand wild tigers are left today.
Common collocations: a wild tiger · a Bengal tiger · tiger stripes · a man-eating tiger · tiger cub
Part of: Animals
Forms
- plural
- tigers