"Bengal tiger" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Bengal tigers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Bengal tiger (plural Bengal tigers)
  1. Any tiger of a specific, fragmented population of the subspecies Panthera tigris tigris in the Indian subcontinent. Wikipedia link: Bengal tiger Categories (lifeform): Panthers Synonyms: royal Bengal tiger Coordinate_terms: Indochinese tiger, Malayan tiger, Siberian tiger, South China tiger, Caspian tiger† Translations (population of Panthera tigris tigris): tigri i Bengalit (Albanian), tigre de Bengala [masculine] (Catalan), 孟加拉虎 (mèngjiālāhǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 印度虎 (yìndùhǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), Bengalsk tiger (Danish), Bengaalse tijger [masculine] (Dutch), bengalia tigro (Esperanto), intiantiikeri (Finnish), bengalintiikeri (Finnish), tigre du Bengale [masculine] (French), Königstiger [masculine] (German), Königstigerin [feminine] (German), bengáli tigris (Hungarian), harimau Benggala (Indonesian), ខ្លាដំបង (klaa dɑmbɑɑng) (Khmer), ខ្លាធំបេងហ្គាល់ (klaa tʰom beeŋgal) (Khmer), 벵골호랑이 (benggolhorang'i) (Korean), бенгалски тигар (bengalski tigar) [masculine] (Macedonian), harimau Benggala (Malay), tygrys bengalski [masculine] (Polish), tigre-de-bengala (Portuguese), tigru bengalez [masculine] (Romanian), бенга́льский тигр (bengálʹskij tigr) [masculine] (Russian), बंगाली ला (Sheshi Kham), bengalski tiger [masculine] (Slovene), tigre de Bengala (Spanish), chui-milia wa Bungala (Swahili), Bengal kaplanı (Turkish), hổ Bengal (Vietnamese), regatigrid (Volapük)

Inflected forms

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