"liger" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈlaɪɡɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-liger.wav [Southern-England] Forms: ligers [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪɡə(ɹ) Etymology: Blend of lion + tiger Etymology templates: {{blend|en|lion|tiger}} Blend of lion + tiger Head templates: {{en-noun}} liger (plural ligers)
  1. An animal born to a male lion and a tigress. Wikipedia link: liger Categories (lifeform): Panthers Hyponyms: ligress Related terms: tigon Translations (animal born to a male lion and a tigress): أَسَد بَبْرِيّ (ʔasad babriyy) [masculine] (Arabic), 獅虎 (Chinese Mandarin), 狮虎 (shīhǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), liger [common-gender] (Danish), lijger [masculine] (Dutch), liikeri (Finnish), tigron [masculine] (French), tiglon [masculine] (French), ligre [masculine] (French), Liger [masculine] (German), ライガー (raigā) (Japanese), 라이거 (raigeo) (Korean), барслан (barslan) (Mongolian), lygrys [masculine] (Polish), ligre [masculine] (Portuguese), лигр (ligr) [masculine] (Russian), лагар [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), lagar [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ligre [masculine] (Spanish), lleigr [masculine] (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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