tigerlike
adjEtymology From tiger + -like.
1
Resembling a tiger; tigerish.
- Weighing about 60 pounds and bearing powerful jaws, the thylacine had a doglike skull, was about the height and shape of a Doberman, and had tigerlike stripes on its back that may have helped conceal it in the bush from its prey.2011 January 8, Sean B. Carroll, “Call of the Thylacine: Protect the Wild”, in The New York Times: