Definition of "tigress" [ti•gress]

• A female tiger. (noun)
• A woman regarded as daring or fierce. (noun)

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• "They had recently been married, that is, the tigress had chosen the tiger as her husband -- for in the jungle it is usually the wife who chooses the husband."
• "Although compared to Medea, Medusa and Circe, Lumley seems more angry pussycat than classical tigress; but she does deliver Goldman's one-liners with the right snap, crackle and pop, and suggests a devious mind at work."
• "There were many of them, and one recent one where a tigress had reached for his shoulder and gone down to the bone."