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Ligress vs Nigress - What's the difference?

ligress | nigress |

As nouns the difference between ligress and nigress

is that ligress is a female liger while nigress is an alternative spelling of niggeress.

ligress

English

Noun

(es)
  • A female liger.
  • * 1994 , Tim May, " Waystation Trying to Save Tigers in Ireland", Los Angeles Times , 6 December 1994:
    • Colette has rescued cougars, bobcats, jaguars, panthers, tigers, lions--and even a ligress --a cross between a lion and a tiger.
  • * 2008 , Brandon Griggs, Utah Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff , Insiders' Guide (2008), ISBN 9780762743865, page 128:
    • Called Shasta because "she hasta" have this and "she hasta" have that, the bossy liger — she was a ligress , to be more precise — was one of the zoo's most beloved and famous residents before she died in 1972 at the ripe age of twenty-four.
  • * 2012 , " The rarest big cat in the world needs a normal moggy as her foster mum", The Siberian Times , 11 September 2012:
    • There are a number of cases of ligers and ligresses in the world but experts say it is impossible for males to conceive and exceptionally rare for females to give birth.
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    • nigress

    English

    Noun

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