Word Meanings - TIGER-FOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

TIGERINE
Tigerish; tigrine.
TIGER-FOOTED
Hastening to devour; furious.
TIGER-FOOT
See TIGER'S-FOOT
TIGER
probably of Persian origin; cf. Zend tighra pointed, tighri an arrow, Per. tir; perhaps akin to E. stick, v.t.; -- probably so named from 1. A very large and powerful carnivore native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are
TIGER'S-FOOT
A name given to some species of morning-glory having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.
TIGERISH
Like a tiger; tigrish.
TIGER-EYE
A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.
SCUTIGER
Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.
DENTIGEROUS
Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.
SETIGEROUS
Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setæ; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically , tipped with a bristle.
WATER TIGER
A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
SETIGER
An annelid having setæ; a chætopod.