Explore Ligers through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Ligers meaning
plural of liger
Using Ligers
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of liger
- In the example corpus, ligers often appears in combinations such as: ligers are.
Context around Ligers
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 0 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ligers
- In this selection, "ligers" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, male, female, absent and grow stand out and add context to how "ligers" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include but female ligers often are and is absent ligers grow far. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ligers" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ligers
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Male ligers are sterile, but female ligers often are fertile. (10 words)
Like ligers, they have physical and behavioural traits from both parental species, and males are sterile. (16 words)
Ligers are much bigger than normal lions, typically convert in length, and can weigh up to convert. (17 words)
The liger is a cross between a male lion and a tigress. citation Because the lion sire passes on a growth-promoting gene, but the corresponding growth-inhibiting gene from the female tiger is absent, ligers grow far larger than either parent. (42 words)
Ligers are much bigger than normal lions, typically convert in length, and can weigh up to convert. (17 words)
Like ligers, they have physical and behavioural traits from both parental species, and males are sterile. (16 words)
Example sentences (4)
Male ligers are sterile, but female ligers often are fertile.
Ligers are much bigger than normal lions, typically convert in length, and can weigh up to convert.
Like ligers, they have physical and behavioural traits from both parental species, and males are sterile.
The liger is a cross between a male lion and a tigress. citation Because the lion sire passes on a growth-promoting gene, but the corresponding growth-inhibiting gene from the female tiger is absent, ligers grow far larger than either parent.
Common combinations with ligers
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: