Tiger vs. Wolf

Tigernoun

, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

Wolfnoun

The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.

Tigernoun

A male tiger.

Wolfnoun

A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

Tigernoun

(heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.

Wolfnoun

(music) A wolf tone or wolf note.

Tigernoun

(obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

Wolfnoun

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

‘the bee wolf’;

Tigernoun

A leopard.

Wolfnoun

(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

‘They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.’;

Tigernoun

A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.

Wolfnoun

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

Tigernoun

(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.

Wolfnoun

(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

Tigernoun

A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.

‘three cheers and a tiger’;

Wolfnoun

A willying machine.

Tigernoun

A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

Wolfverb

(transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

Tigernoun

A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.

Wolfverb

To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

Tigernoun

A tiger beetle.

Wolfverb

(intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

Tigernoun

A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina

Wolfnoun

Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (Canis occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

Tigernoun

A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.

Wolfnoun

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

Tigernoun

A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.

Wolfnoun

Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

Tigernoun

Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.

‘As for heinous tiger, Tamora.’;

Wolfnoun

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

Tigernoun

A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

Wolfnoun

An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

‘If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.’;

Tigernoun

A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger.

Wolfnoun

The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

Tigernoun

A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

Wolfnoun

A willying machine.

Tigernoun

a fierce or audacious person;

‘he's a tiger on the tennis court’; ‘it aroused the tiger in me’;

Wolfnoun

any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

Tigernoun

large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered

Wolfnoun

Austrian composer (1860-1903)

Tiger

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus Panthera. It is most recognisable for its dark vertical stripes on orange-brown fur with a lighter underside.

Wolfnoun

German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

Wolfnoun

a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

Wolfnoun

a cruelly rapacious person

Wolfverb

eat hastily;

‘The teenager wolfed down the pizza’;

Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and gray wolves, as colloquially understood, comprise non-domestic/feral subspecies.