tigress
Noun
Meaning
The female of the tiger.
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As when a tigress hears the noise of the hunters, she bristles into her stripes and shakes off the sloth of sleep; athirst for battle she loosens her jaws and flexes her claws, then rushes upon the troop and carries in her mouth a breathing man, food for her bloody young.
But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.
Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!
Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.
Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.
At least in one case, a tigress with cubs killed eight people entering her territory without consuming them at all. citation Commercial hunting and traditional medicine seeAlso A hunting party poses with a killed Javan tiger, 1941.