tiger cub | a young tiger |
sand tiger sand shark Carcharias taurus Odontaspis taurus | shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic, sometimes dangerous to swimmers |
tiger shark Galeocerdo cuvieri | large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body |
tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum | widely distributed brown or black North American salamander with vertical yellowish blotches |
tiger snake Notechis scutatus | highly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania |
tiger rattlesnake Crotalus tigris | having irregularly cross-banded back, of arid foothills and canyons of southern Arizona and Mexico |
thylacine Tasmanian wolf Tasmanian tiger Thylacinus cynocephalus | rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back, probably extinct |
tiger cowrie Cypraea tigris | cowrie whose shell is used for ornament |
heron | grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill |
great blue heron Ardea herodius | large American heron having bluish-grey plumage |
great white heron Ardea occidentalis | large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys |
little blue heron Egretta caerulea | small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere |
snowy egret snowy heron Egretta thula | small New World egret |
great white heron Casmerodius albus | widely distributed Old World white egret |
American egret great white heron Egretta albus | a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America, it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus |
night heron night raven | nocturnal or crepuscular herons |
blackrowned night heron Nycticorax nycticorax | night heron of both Old and New Worlds |
yellowrowned night heron Nyctanassa violacea | North American night heron |
boatbill boat-billed heron broadbill Cochlearius cochlearius | tropical American heron related to night herons |
tiger cat | a cat having a striped coat |
tiger cat Felis tigrina | medium-sized wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-striped coat |
tiger Panthera tigris | large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes, endangered |
Bengal tiger | southern short-haired tiger |
saber-toothed tiger sabertooth | any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth, from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene |
false saber-toothed tiger | North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene, much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon |
tiger beetle | active usually brightolored beetle that preys on other insects |
Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus | striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean, potential carrier of serious diseases |
tiger moth | medium-sized moth with long richly colored and intricately patterned wings, larvae are called woolly bears |
paper tiger | the nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual, he reminded Mao that the paper tiger had nuclear teeth |
tiger | a fierce or audacious person, he's a tiger on the tennis court, it aroused the tiger in me |
Hero Heron Hero of Alexandria | Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) |
tiger lily leopard lily pine lily Lilium catesbaei | lily of southeastern United States having cup-shaped flowers with deep yellow to scarlet recurved petals |
Columbia tiger lily Oregon lily Lilium columbianum | lily of western North America with showy orangeed purple-spotted flowers |
tiger lily devil lily kentan Lilium lancifolium | east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals |
storksbill heron's bill | any of various plants of the genus Erodium |
tiger-striped | having stripes resembling those of a tiger |