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tigon
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ti·glon  (tgln) also ti·gon (gn)
n.
The hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.


tigon [ˈtaɪgən], tiglon [ˈtɪglɒn]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion
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Noun1.tigon - offspring of a male tiger and a female lion
big cat, cat - any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild


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Sometimes she's sun-lazed with green-eyed tigons on a shimmering sandy beach.
24) In a case argued before my court involving the validity of a regulation issued under the Act requiring wild-animal dealers to have higher fences around their animal enclosures,(25) the government's lawyer conceded that the regulation could not be defended by reference to the interest in protecting people from the dangerous animals involved in the case, namely ligers and tigons (crosses between lions and tigers), because it was not part of the Act's purpose to protect people.
The preserve has elephants, lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, cougars, panthers, hybrid cats called ligers and tigons, and an African wildcat called a serval, Fricano said.
 
 
 
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