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e. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.

A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.

A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.

Same as Tiger's-foot.

Hastening to devour; furious.

Tigerish; tigrine. [R.]

Like a tiger; tigrish.

Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.

Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.

An annelid having setæ; a chætopod.

Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setæ; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle.

A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.

gal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3. -- Bengal tiger. (Zoöl.). See Tiger.

lmost exclusively: An aërial bulb or deciduous bud, produced in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated, of propagating the plant; -- called also bulblet and brood bud.

ced on a larger bulb, or on some aërial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful.

on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

ates the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.

A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).

in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.