tigris
IPA: tˈaɪgrʌs
Root Word: Tigris
noun
- A river in Southwest Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf.
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Examples of "tigris" in Sentences
- It should be on the left bank of the Tigris.
- It is one of the tributaries of the Tigris River.
- "Rarum fit cum tigris." or ... seldom done with tigers!
- He built the city of Numaniya on the right bank of Tigris.
- One of the most important was Seleucia on the Tigris river.
- All these words possess the characteristic of the Tigris River.
- Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, stands on the banks of the Tigris.
- I think you meant the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
- Her weeping eyes became the source of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
- But they relate to the Tigris and the Nile, not to the Shatt al Arab.
- He then seized the fortress Ekallatum on the left bank of the Tigris.
- The social organisation of tigers (Panthera tigris) in Royal Chitawan National Park.
- Man-eating behaviour of tigers (Panthera tigris Linn) of the Sundarbans - twenty-eight years 'record analysis.
- Description: Russia holds the world's largest population of tigers? the Amur subspecies, Panthera tigris altaica.
- A quick check of Wikipedia informs me that the Panthera tigris is an apex predator and obligate carnivore, native to East and South Asia.
- In the 70 years since Corbett bagged his last tiger, the balance of power between Panthera tigris and mankind has been dramatically reversed.
- The Sundarbans of Bangladesh and India support one of the largest populations of tiger Panthera tigris (EN), with an estimated 350 in that of the former.
- He has published over 20 scholarly articles and book chapters and is currently co-editing Tigers of the World: The Biology, Politics, and Conservation of Panthera tigris.
- Yet this practice, which converts solitary predators into livestock for Chinese consumers, has been hailed as a pragmatic strategy for bringing the endangered tiger (panthera tigris) back from the brink of extinction.
- Reptiles include the endemic chameleon Chamaeleo tigris, Seychelles house snake Boaedon geometricus, Seychelles wolf snake Lycognathophis seychellensis, the introduced blind snake Ramphotyphlops braminus, green geckos Phelsuma sundbergi and P. astriata, bronze gecko Ailuronyx sechellensis, and skinks Mabuya sechellensis, Scelotes gardineri, and S. braueri.
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