tiger

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tiger/ˈtʌɪɡə(r)/

▶noun

• 1 a very large solitary cat with a yellow-brown coat striped with black, native to the forests of Asia. [Panthera tigris.]

• 2 used in names of tiger moths and striped butterflies, e.g. scarlet tiger, plain tiger.

• 3 (also tiger economy) a dynamic economy of one of the smaller East Asian countries, especially that of Singapore, Taiwan, or South Korea.

– derivatives
tigerish adjective,
tigerishly adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr. tigre, from L. tigris, from Gk.