tigonn.
/ˈtʌɪɡən/ The offspring of a tiger and a lioness.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Panthera > panthera leo or lion > offspring of lion and tiger
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1927 G. Jennison Nat. Hist.: Animals 57 It should be noted particularly that the markings of the Tigon are not stripes, but rhomboids, almost like the markings on the Clouded Leopard.
1932 Times Educ. Suppl. 16 Jan. p. iv/2 The male parent of the ‘tigon’ was a tiger, the female an Indian lioness.
1938 Times 28 May 7/7 The name liger is given to the offspring of a male lion and tigress, the opposite cross being called a tigron.
1947 Partisan Rev. 14 395 Mr. Gielgud's gravity, his sensitive, melancholy profile, here becomes exquisitely comic—he looks like a tiglon with a heart.
1964 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 8 Nov. 4/6 For many years the London Zoo possessed a magnificent ‘Tigon’—a tiger-lion hybrid.
1972 Times 15 Feb. 6/5 A ‘tigon’ has been born in a Calcutta zoo from cross-breeding a tiger with a lioness.
1976 Observer 5 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 42/1 (caption) This animal, one of the world's rarest cats, is a tiglon, a cross between a tiger and a lion.
1981 M. Duffy Gor Saga v. 214 ‘Can you combine the sexual elements from two different species?’ ‘Like tigers and lions making tigrons you mean?’
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