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Tiger cub   /tˈaɪgər kəb/   Listen
Tiger cub

noun
1.
A young tiger.





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"Tiger cub" Quotes from Famous Books



... then fear leaves us. He was quite prepared to meet the objection that animals of a solitary habit do nevertheless exhibit fear. Some of this apparent fear, he argued, was merely discretion, and what is not discretion is the survival of an infantile characteristic. The fear felt by a tiger cub is certainly a social emotion, that drives it back to the other cubs, to its mother and the dark hiding of the lair. The fear of a fully grown tiger sends it into the reeds and the shadows, to a refuge, that must be "still reminiscent of the maternal ...
— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells
 
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Words linked to "Tiger cub" :   Panthera tigris, cub, tiger, young carnivore



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