Word Meanings - TIGRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The female of the tiger. Holland.

Related words: (words related to TIGRESS)

• TIGERINE
  Tigerish; tigrine.
• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• 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
• HOLLAND
  A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
• TIGER'S-FOOT
  A name given to some species of morning-glory having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• HOLLANDISH
  Relating to Holland; Dutch.
• HOLLANDER
  1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.
• 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.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• 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.