tigridia

[Mod. Lat., dim. from Gr. tigris =a tiger; or Gr. tigris =a tiger, and eidos =appearance. Named from its spotted flowers.] Bot.: A genus of Iridacese. Bulbs from Mexico, with very beautiful but fugitive flowers. [TIGER FLOWER.] IMG:content-1122.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1123.png:[blocks in formation] a tiger; fierce, bloodthirsty. "Let this thought thy tigrish courage pa ." Sydney: Astroph. and Stella. *2. Swaggering, bullying. "Nothing could be more vagrant, devil me-carish, and to use the slang word, tigrish , than his whole air."- Lyt ton: My Novel , bk. vi., ch. xx. ti-gri-sō-ma, s . [Lat. tigris a tiger, and Gr. soma the body. Named from the markings on the plumage.] Ornith.: A genus of Ardeide, with four species from tropical America and Western Africa. Bill as in Ardea (q.v.); face and sometimes chin, naked; legs feathered almost to the knees; inner toe rather shorter than outer; claws short, stout, regularly curved; anterior scales reticulate or hexagonal. *tike (1), s . [TICK (2), 8.]