Word Meanings - TIGRINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.

Related words: (words related to TIGRINE)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• TIGERINE
  Tigerish; tigrine.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• TIGRINE
  Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• TIGER-FOOTED
  Hastening to devour; furious.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• TIGER-FOOT
  See TIGER'S-FOOT
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• 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
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
• SCUTIGER
  Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.
• WATER-COLORIST
  One who paints in water colors.
• DECOLOR
  To deprive of color; to bleach.