ligress

ligress

English

Etymology

liger +‎ -ess

Noun

ligress (plural ligresses)

1. A female liger.
   • 1994, Tim May, "Waystation Trying to Save Tigers in Ireland", Los Angeles Times, 6 December 1994:

     Colette has rescued cougars, bobcats, jaguars, panthers, tigers, lions--and even a ligress --a cross between a lion and a tiger.

   • 2008, Brandon Griggs, Utah Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Insiders' Guide (2008), →ISBN, page 128:

     Called Shasta because "she hasta" have this and "she hasta" have that, the bossy liger — she was a ligress, to be more precise — was one of the zoo's most beloved and famous residents before she died in 1972 at the ripe age of twenty-four.

   • 2012, "The rarest big cat in the world needs a normal moggy as her foster mum", The Siberian Times, 11 September 2012:

     There are a number of cases of ligers and ligresses in the world but experts say it is impossible for males to conceive and exceptionally rare for females to give birth.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:ligress.

Translations

female liger

Arabic: لَبُؤَة بَبْرِيَّة‎ f (labuʾa(t) babriyya), لَبْوَة بَبْرِيَّة‎ (labwa(t) babriyya) Mongolian: бэрслэн (berslen) Portuguese: ligresa f

Russian: лигри́ца f (ligríca) Spanish: ligresa f Welsh: lleigres f

Anagrams

• Grissel, Siglers, Sligers, grilses