Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
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- noun A
cross between a maletiger and alioness .
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- noun offspring of a male tiger and a female lion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Liger and tigon which is bred with a male tiger and lioness are ussually bred by mistake.
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Animals (and non-animals) have produced fertile cross-species mixes, the liger and tigon for example are species which have fertile members (although only the females which makes them non-sustainable as seperate species without lion and tiger populations however if enough liger and tigons are breed with lions and tigers it should eventually result in a fertile male liger or tigon to continue the species).
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry” 2010
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Animals (and non-animals) have produced fertile cross-species mixes, the liger and tigon for example are species which have fertile members (although only the females which makes them non-sustainable as seperate species without lion and tiger populations however if enough liger and tigons are breed with lions and tigers it should eventually result in a fertile male liger or tigon to continue the species).
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry” 2010
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The top spot goes to ti-ligers/ti-tigon/li-tigons/li-ligers because it is a hybrid among the hybrids.
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It is a cross breed between a male tiger and a female liger/tigon or a male lion with a female tigon/liger.
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I don't know about the 'horse-something hybrid' but there is the tigon - hybrid of a male tiger and a lioness and the liger - hybrid between a male lion and a female tiger.
"So what did Neanderthal women do all day?" Ann Althouse 2006
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Since the parents are unknown, they're not sure if it's a liger or a tigon but either way it's a beautiful animal.
Life of Brian: Brian David Phillips 2004
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Because it is a hybrid, it usually suffers from giantism, whereas a tigon (male tiger, female lion) usually suffers from dwarfism.
sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2003
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Rangini, the last tigon in the zoo, died in 1999 as the oldest of her kind.
The Times of India 2010
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Tiger breeding in Alipore zoo has drawn flak in the past from the scientific community because of cross-breeding experiments between lion and tigers to produce strains like tigon, and litigons (Panthera hybrids).
The Times of India 2010
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