bengal tiger
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any tiger of a specific, fragmented population of the subspecies Panthera tigris tigris in the Indian subcontinent.
Example Sentences
- "Bengal tiger is considered sacred by Hindus and the antipodes (so-called no-caste tribes) living in the forests of India.[…]In addition to this, the health of forests is determined by the presence of Bengal tigers."
- "Bengal tigers are endangered animals. Their numbers have been dropping for more than a century. In the early 1900s, about 40,000 Bengal tigers lived in India. Today, that number stands at around 1,400. About 400 more Bengal tigers live in nearby countries."
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Synonyms
royal Bengal tiger