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# liger

«liger» in Mova's school dictionary: **the baby of a male lion and a female tiger; it is a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a liger, ligers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A liger is the baby of a male lion and a female tiger; it is a hybrid, a mix of two kinds of animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#m1)

2) Ligers are huge, often bigger than both parents, with faint stripes and a lion-like face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about animals, hybrids and inheritance. Ligers almost never happen in the wild, because lions and tigers live in different places; they are bred in zoos or animal parks. Phrases: «a lion and tiger hybrid».

### examples

- A liger has a lion dad and a tiger mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#x1)
- Ligers are the biggest cats in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#x2)
- A tigon has a tiger dad and a lion mum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#x3)
- Ligers are not found in the wild. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#x4)
- The liger had faint stripes on its back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#x5)
- Mules and ligers are both hybrids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#x6)
- We read about a liger that weighed more than a lion and a tiger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#x7)
- Many scientists say breeding ligers is not good for the animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/#x8)

### note

Countable. Say «LIE-ger». It is a blend of «lion» and «tiger». A tigon is the opposite mix. Ligers are real but rare.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «liger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.