ligress

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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8
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10
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7

Definition of ligress

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A female liger.
    “Colette has rescued cougars, bobcats, jaguars, panthers, tigers, lions--and even a ligress --a cross between a lion and a tiger.”
    “Called Shasta because "she hasta" have this and "she hasta" have that, the bossy liger — she was a ligress, to be more precise — was one of the zoo's most beloved and famous residents before she died in 1972 at the ripe age of twenty-four.”
    “There are a number of cases of ligers and ligresses in the world but experts say it is impossible for males to conceive and exceptionally rare for females to give birth.”

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Etymology

From liger + -ess.

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