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# tigress

«tigress» in Mova's school dictionary: **a female tiger** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a tigress, tigresses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tigress is a female tiger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tigress/#m1)

2) (figurative) A tigress can describe a woman who is fierce and brave, especially when protecting her children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tigress/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Science and nature: a tigress raises her cubs alone for about two years and teaches them to hunt. Tigers are endangered; they live in parts of Asia. Stories: «she fought like a tigress» shows fierce courage.

### examples

- The tigress carried her cub in her mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tigress/#x1)
- A tigress hunts alone at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tigress/#x2)
- The zoo's tigress had three cubs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tigress/#x3)
- Mum defended us like a tigress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tigress/#x4)
- Wild tigresses live in India and Russia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tigress/#x5)
- The tigress licked her cubs clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tigress/#x6)

### note

Plural: tigresses. Male: tiger; young: cub. The -ess ending marks a female (lioness, tigress, princess).

### Trees and pragmatics

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