different between ligress vs liger

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 quotations using this term, see Citations:ligress.

Translations

Anagrams

• Grissel, Siglers, Sligers, grilses

English

Etymology

Blend of lion +? tiger

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?la???/
• Rhymes: -a???(r)

Noun

liger (plural ligers)

1. An animal born to a male lion and a tigress.

Hyponyms

• ligress

Translations

See also

• tigon

References

• liger at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Rigel, e-girl, egirl, elrig, girle

Latin

Verb

liger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lig?

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *levi?rius, from Classical Latin levis (“light; not heavy”). Compare French léger.

Adjective

liger m (feminine singular ligera, masculine plural ligers, feminine plural ligeras)

1. (Puter, Vallader) light (of weight)
2. (Puter, Vallader) easy

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) lev
• (Sutsilvan) leav
• (Vallader) leiv

Etymology 2

From Latin leg?, legere.

Verb

liger

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) to read

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Vallader) leger
• (Puter) ler

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ligero.

Adjective

liger

1. light (not heavy)
2. swift, quick-acting (of a person)

Adverb

liger

1. quick

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 249