Definition of tigress
: a female tiger;
also
: a tigerish woman
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An Indian tigress wearing a radio collar wades through a river after being released by wildlife workers in Storekhali forest in the Sundarbans, some 130 kilometers south of Kolkata, in 2010.
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What happened is Machli lost her canine teeth and became this odd predicament of an elderly, wild tigress.
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People wanting to see the tigress earned the park approximately $10 million each year, and the wildlife officials were wary of losing their star.
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Definitely a tigress; that’s my spirit animal, in a sense.
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Word had it that some of those who had arrived an hour earlier had seen a tigress and cubs emerge from the long grass on the far bank of the lake.
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Hefner’s bunnies were a major departure from female mythology, where women were often portrayed as animals of prey — tigresses and leopards.
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Definitely a tigress
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But the tigress lived to such an old age thanks to care by forest officials.
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