Tigerish: alternatives and connections

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.

behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a…

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to class…

Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (…

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is play…

To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other ani…

A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or rep…

An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though…

Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to p…

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is…

A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other ge…

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

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.

Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellul…

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and sod…